
nMMUMMKiMKIMHraMKiai 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

Autocrat and the Number 



By 

Richard Collier Ux^i 



The causes antecedent which established conditions to 
result in a world war. The Bible — Daniel and Revelation. 
Prophesy in Process of Realization. War and Democracy. 
Preservation of Christianity. Discovery of America and 
Birth of Republic : the years predicted and recorded. 

Proclamations confirmatory that all nations are to become 
democratized from the Democracies of France and Great 
Britain to and in the Congress of the United States. 

Proceedings, April 6, 1917, in the Chamber of Deputies, 
France, directing the message of the President of the United 
States to be read in all schools in France. 

Flag Day address of the President of the United States. 



THE GROLIER CRAFT PRESS, Inc. 

NEW YORK 






COPYRIGHT 1917. 

Copyright applied for Great Britain and France, Canada, 
Australia, Confederation of South Africa and India. 

All rights of translation, adaptation and reproduction re- 
served for all countries. 

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serves pour tous pays. 






PREFACE. 

The great mystery, in the most occult Books in the Bible, 
is in the verses of the related numbers in Daniel and Revela- 
tion predicting the discovery of America; the World War; 
the acts of the beast — submarine — number 6 6 6, and the fall 
of autocracy and plutocracy. A comprehensive study of the 
verses, the numbers therein and relation of combination of 
the numbers to the World War, the German Empire and 
the United States would seem to establish the identity of the 
beast figuratively as the Prussian Kaiser synonym for auto- 
crat, and the number 666 as being prophetic of his age, 
and emblematic of the characteristics of autocracy. Further- 
more, it is established from the verses that forty-two months 
is to be the duration of the power of the beast, the ending 
of autocracy to be apparent January-February, 1918, and then 
the beginning of acceptance generally of the democratic 
principle in government, for extension throughout all 
countries. 

The highest unit factor in the nine Arabic numerals is 
employed as a symbol to show the correlativity of the records 
of epochal Biblical history with those relating to momentous 
issues of the nations at the present time. A series of illus- 
trations reveal reciprocal association astounding in revelation 
and meaning. Unfailing correspondence of the Divine with 
the mortal is in evidence. The days of deception, hypocrisy 
and crime are considered as numbered and they are to pass 
from the earth. The inhabitants of the planet are to return 
to a full comprehension of the Divine ordinances and to live 
in accordance to law. 

The mission of this pamphlet is to accelerate peaceful 
social revolution, through the spirit of universal democracy 
by creating among the people of all creeds enthusiastic interest 
generally in a new investigation as to the real meaning of the 
narrative from Genesis to the Revelation, thereby to assure 
greater co-operation in hastening the establishing of the King- 
dom of Heaven on Earth. The theme in this pamphlet is vis- 
ible from beginning to end. Like some streams it may mo- 
mentarily wind its wav into subterranean passages only to 
emerge into the light of the stin. 



"And from the time that the daily sacri- 
fice shall be taken away, and the abomination 
that maketh desolate set up there shall be a 
12 9Q days." "Blessed is he that waiteth, 
and cometh to the 13 3 5 days." Daniel XII, 
11 and 12. 

"And there was given unto him a mouth 
speaking great things and blasphemies; and 
power was given unto him to continue 4 2 
months." "Here is wisdom. Let him that 
hath understanding count the number of the 
beast; for it is the number of a man; and 
his number is 6 6 6V ' Revelation XIII, 5 and 18. 

The causes of the World War and the diagram of the 
numbers are visible in the Books of Daniel and Revelation. 
The Bible foretells the years 1914 and 19 1 7. Search and find 
the revelation. 



27 is Book Daniel. 

2+7=9 



Revelation is Book 27 
2+7=9 



Verse 11 
Chapter XII 

Verse 12 



a. 1290 

b. 13 3 5 



23 




* 3333 



Verse 5 
Chapter XIII 

Verse 18 

23 



* The Capitol, Washington", Tj. S. A., is the first National Temple in 
the World dedicated to Christian Legislation Law and Justice by the first 
free and independent Nation in history at birth a Christian Democracy. 
Find in the Capitol the miniature Canopy of Heaven and see the number 
of the dimensions — 3 3 3 3 — expressed in the unit of measurement. 
Nine is the highest unit and eighty-one is the highest multiple of a unit: 
3X3X3X3 = 81. 8+1=9. 



Interpretation of the Time in Daniel XII — 7. "Time Times 
and an Half." The Numbers are: 

e. 1 2 4 8 6 2 4=27. Daniel is Book 27 

Autocracy in 1914 Began the War for World Supremacy. 



e. 1 2 4 8 

6 2 4) ... 


a. 1 2 9 
d. 6 6 6 


c. 4 2) 


19 5 6 
c. 4 2 


19 14 


19 14 



American Democracy in 1917 Enters the World War to 
Help Destroy Autocracy and Plutocracy. 

a. 1 2 9 a. 1 2 9 

c. 4 2 b. 1 3 3 5 



e. 1248 2625 

b. 1 3 3 5 d. 6 6 6 



2 5 8 3 19 5 9 

d. 6 6 6 c. 4 2 



19 17 19 17 

Power of Autocracy Will Have Attained Its Maximum 
Ascendency in January-February, 1918. 

Democracy, Not Autocracy, is Christianity. 

Daniel and Revelation Foretell the Year of the Advent 

of Christianity in North America; and Year of 

Creation of the First Nation in the World 

at Birth a Christian Democracy. 

2 3 Daniel VIII, 14 2 3 

6 66 Revelation XIII, 18 666 



1634 1634 

142 Daniel V, 5 142 



14 9 2 Discovery of America. Birth of the Nation 17 7 6 



CONTENTS. 



Diagram of the years of the World War from the 

Books of Daniel and Revelation IV 



CHAPTER I. 

Fulfillment of Prophesy IX 

CHAPTER II. 

The Great Symbol Nine XVIII 

APPENDIX. 

The World Democracy XLI 

FRANCE. 

Proceedings of Chamber of Deputies authorizing the 
reading of the message from the President of the 
United States, in all the schools of the French 
Republic XLI 



Address of former Prime Minister of France Mr. R. 
Viviani, to, and in the Senate of the United 
States (French and English text) XLIV 



GREAT BRITAIN. 

Address of the Right Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, 
Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the United 
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to and in 
the House of Representatives of the United 
States XLVIII 



UNITED STATES. 

Flag Day address of the President of the United 
States to the Democracy and Autocracy of the 
World 



CHAPTER I 



HTHE reason for an alliance of prophesy and democracy 
1 is to create new interest and service to the cause 
of democratizing the world. The sovereign destiny of 
labor is to be fulfilled through a more intimate explanation of 
profound physical truths, by universality in fellowship and 
conduct as expressed in the teachings of Jesus and others 
in accord, and, as a consequence of faithful practice accord- 
ingly, participation by all mankind in the grandeur of the 
benefits that are to result. Furthermore, this message is 
written to urge continued careful examination of history and 
prophesy in the Bible, thereby to obtain evidence explana- 
tory of the world politic-economic revolution now in develop- 
ment, and of the deplorable state of society on this planet — 
in America as well as in Europe, Asia and Africa — at the end 
of nineteen centuries of Christian Era. Finally, the remedy 
— the necessary observance of the basic law — in order to 
change conditions and to have "Thy Kingdom come on 
Earth as it is in Heaven." The Utopian visions of the 
centuries past are to become the realities of the present. 
The rapidity in transition from evil to good is as of the night 
to the dawn. In ancient days the admission generally of a 
truth was the work of a decade, whereas today it is apparent 
upon announcement. The spirit commonly designated 
Christianity — the soul of democracy — is knowledge expres- 
sion and acceptance of the infinite truth that through creation 
of Divine Law and obedience thereto peace and justice shall 
prevail among all nations. 

The governments of the world at the birth of the 
twentieth century enjoyed a measure of concord, although 
they were not in accord in respect to the wisdom of agree- 
ing upon a procedure — the adoption of which, then as now — 
to lead to establishing a union in interpretation and under- 
standing of the Divine ordinances, the differences between 
good and evil, right and wrong. The dynasties of appropri- 
ation, depredation and plunder, that began the war, were not 
ready to concede the virtues of the teachings of Jesus and to 
acknowledge that their application signified the democratiza- 
tion of the world. The predatory instincts had not disap- 
peared altogether from all races. As evident in some States, 
the people submitted to a series of misrepresentations which 
would have been comic had not the tragic deception led 
thousands in mass formation to the portals of Verdun as 
sheep are herded for the slaughter. 

That which now remains to be achieved by all the 
Powers, as a condition to the ending of the war, is a tangible 
alliance or an agreement between leaders in religion and sci- 



10 FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY. 

ence, and of a nature to receive the support of the world 
governments to a code of commandments elemental and es- 
sential in the guidance of men and women.* The basic prin- 
ciple to be proclaimed by the Council of the Nations should 
be made mandatory and the several constituent States re- 
spectively should agree to enact laws to enforce vigorously in- 
struction among their inhabitants. The process of education, 
without false modesty, to include a clear description of the 
deception and hypocrisy heretofore practiced in discussion 
of fundamental regulations designed by the Creator to govern 
the creation and the development of life on this planet. 

The conscription of five million men and women as edu- 
cators, capable of the same spirit of determination, aggress- 
iveness and heroism as displayed in war, would remove il- 
literacy from the earth in the course of a generation. As a 
beginning has to be made in all things the present is the 
time to establish an association to facilitate introduction in 
the schools of all nations militant methods in the instruction 
of truths relating to creation and life, thereby to insure a 
complete understanding among the young of the processes of 
nature and to the procedure necessary to conform to the high- 
est physical and mental development. Greed and strenuous- 
ness — falsely presented under guise of valiant, intrepid 
endeavor and ruthlessness to a degree of brutality hereto- 
fore unknown — has been thrust into commercial develop- 
ment to accomplish results regardless of the morality of the 
practices performed. The time is present in the process of 
education for those who are concerned with the moral re- 
generation of the world to exercise equally high stress, if 
conditions demand — and they may — but guided by superior in- 
telligence, courage, manliness and chivalry to protect the 
children and the sphere in which mothers are born to serve. 

Evidence is available that mandatory methods, effectively 
so, organized twenty million men under arms and into war 
at enormous expenditure of life and money. To which is to 
be added the large sums to be provided annually for the 
years to come for pensions. Judging from this experience 
alone, it certainly can be made equally mandatory to pro- 
vide a fund, insignificant in comparison with the amount ex- 
pended in war, to be used for the payment of the smaller 
army to be employed by the several States of the world for 
the instruction necessary to overcome the causes that hereto- 
fore made it imperative to establish great armies for military 



(*) The modern definition of the words religion and science are in 
close accord. J. Martineau, in definition of the word religion states: 
"By religion I understand the belief and worship of Supreme mind and 
Will directing the Universe and holding moral relations with human 
life." Who will deny that the Mind directing the Universe is Scientific? 



FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 11 

use. As a question of enforcement, under a banner to fight, 
or under one to instruct, the latter proposal is by far less 
chimerical or Utopian than the former as a business propo- 
sition — the contention notwithstanding of some that there is 
but little consideration in modern commercial affairs for prin- 
ciples compatible with morality — nevertheless in respect 
to the morality of the general procedure there remains no 
argument. 

This pamphlet therefore is issued with the prayer that it 
will awaken renewed enthusiasm, more extended interest in 
the prodigious enterprise of Almighty God, as seen in the 
Universe, and especially His purposes as more closely ex- 
pressed materially in the birth and development of this planet, 
and spiritually in the formulation of fundamental principles, 
designed to guide those who were to become the inhabitants. 

As a means to stimulate greater inspiration and zeal in 
the study of the Bible, to an understanding of the records 
therein including interpretation of prophesy; to collocate 
events of today through the light of new experiences into 
synthetized analogy and correspondence with scriptural re- 
ports; to realize a broader conception of the socialism of 
Christianity, the fatherhood of God, and brotherhood of man, 
attention is again asked those who believe to influence to the 
utmost a comprehensive catholicity in the analysis of the 
word of God, in order to lead all nations into the power of a 
more discerning vision and thereby into the intimate relation- 
ship between God and man, to result from a conscientious 
inquiry as to the significance of the Divine injunctions. 

Symbolism is employed as an aid in the interpretation of 
prophesy. The association which the symbol establishes is 
disclosed with the faith that it will arrest the attention of 
many to a new study of the Bible, to deeper consideration of 
certain truths therein, which should be evident, although they 
appear to be lost temporarily to great hosts of men and wo- 
men. The truths are so assertive as to call for general 
recognition. Foremost among them, it should be seen, is 
the knowledge that the resources of the planet, found in the 
soil and in the Divine power of labor through freedom and 
spirituality of thought, are sufficient to enable the generation 
latest born to establish universally again the Kingdom of 
Heaven on earth. The resources of the two kingdoms for 
mind and body, fostered under republican institutions and 
democratic ideals of liberty, equality, fraternity and intel- 
lectual development, are to be exploited in a manner to de- 
stroy forever the conditions which organized, through the 
physical weaker and less defenceless state of woman, private 
and public debasement and prostitution as a power to the 
near destruction of civilized life on this planet. (See Book 



12 FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 

of Revelation, Chapter xvii, 5-16. Read reports of the 
physicians of America and Europe who are qualified by rea- 
son of many years of scientific investigation and experience 
as specialists in the science of gynecology.) 

As already intimated, the object of the endeavor to es- 
tablish symbolically the identity of the world war with cer- 
tain Biblical records is to induce deeper study of Scriptural 
history — to see the handwriting on the wall. Thereupon it 
will be revealed that to attain nobler exploitation of human 
life, harmonious progress in moral, intellectual and economic 
development must become further evident and to all mankind. 
The transition of society from the severely cruel individually 
competitive organizations into a state of morally co-operative 
leadership, now happily under way and near realization, will 
call for the orderly removal generally of that posing unin- 
tellectual pretentious sham commonly known as the conceited, 
bumptious superman. Thus will be pronounced the extinc- 
tion of the agencies of the oligarchic and plutocratic princi- 
ple in government throughout the world. Initiative and lead- 
ership are essential in all things, with the pioneer alone in 
the heart of the forest of the Amazon, with the superinten- 
dent in the soul of a great industry. The mistakes in the 
past, in this respect, are innumerable, and so with the present 
through false or ignorant declarations that the attributes of 
leadership are exceptional, especial and superior qualifications 
of the few, whereas they are common and general. These 
misleading impressions have given birth to a world of ego- 
tism, now also in process of extinction. 

The inhabitants of this planet, called the Earth, are un- 
dergoing regeneration. The Divine law instrumental in bring- 
ing this star into existence is unalterable and defines the proc- 
ess controlling creation, material development, and pro- 
tection for the specie of the Divine. The regulation of 
spiritual and physical expansion is correlatively unchangeable. 
The inhabitants are made in the image and likeness of God. 
Doomed to failure from the beginning was the project, ap- 
pallingly audacious and infamous, begun during the period 
of the first civilization on the planet, to alter physically the 
handiwork of the specie of God; the sin against the intellect 
of God — the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost, according to your 
preference in classification. The evil professions and cus- 
toms which have contributed to the decline spiritually, there- 
fore morally, of the inhabitants to the lowest depths of 
human degradation, are the result of failure to accept the 
Divine proclamation that man is made in the image and like- 
ness of God. Not that God is made in the image and like- 
ness of man, a distinction some fail to see for the reason 
they continue to insist in the profanation of the work of 



FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 13 

the Creator. Without intending disrespect or denying the 
honesty of purpose of great numbers of people of all races, 
religions and creeds : Caucasian, Mongolian or Negro, Mo- 
hammedan, Buddhist, Jew or Gentile, it is evident today as in 
the ages past and witnessed in the continued effort (and de- 
feat of the effort) to prevent the Divine process of heredity 
forming a basic and normal physical characteristic. The con- 
sequences of the practice of mutilation have caused in time 
the normal to reappear, but in the form of the abnormal, as 
a mark and so to remain until the Divine injunction is again 
understood and obeyed. 

The rotation of the earth on its axis, the tremendous 
force in the whirl of the mass in its orbit changes our position 
in space day to day fifteen hundred thousand miles. In view 
of this single momentous daily event is it not difficult to 
understand that it should be necessary to remind great num- 
bers of people not to forget the Creator of the Universe, 
and to insist that they must try to comprehend the laws or- 
dained for their service, which they have failed to fulfill? 
Is it not therefore equally a folly to assume that persistent 
effort wisely directed has not been made by the prophets 
of ancient times to record the successes and failures, to re- 
port how stubborn perverseness and contumacy have caused 
the exceedingly slow germination and small harvest of in- 
tellectual mortals? These experiences are from Genesis to 
Revelation. They are found in the inscriptions on stone, 
pristine in human affairs, deciphered by students of science 
today. The physical force and attendant evils, which have 
endeavored to master God, in modern parlance, is material- 
ism and supermechanism. The cause of the doctrine of ma- 
terialists some day will be traced directly to a condition re- 
sulting from a disregard of that injunction which, had it been 
observed, would have continued the Kingdom of Heaven on 
this planet from the days of the origin of human life to the 
present, and the material impositions of the several deadly 
schemes of life, all now expiring, would have been unknown. 
The fall in the Garden of Eden resulted from the failure 
to observe the Divine law. Faithful recognition of that law 
signified allegiance to the great precept and mandate that 
intimate conjugal relation was to occur solely to propagate 
life and for no other purpose. Man is made in the image and 
likeness of God. The presentation is Divine, reflection will 
reveal the augustness of the gift. 

The great plan of creation followed in the constructive 
design of this planet included a physical and temperamental 
condition so organized as to prevent the defeat of the Divine 
will by causing depopulation through failure due to non-con- 
jugal association. At the same time the injunction was that 



14 FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 

observation of the law, unalterably, should be fulfilled. The 
failure to comply with the law is evident in the present dis- 
organized social state. The continuous ignoring of the Divine 
injunctions established heterogeneous aggregations of human 
life, from which were organized more or less chaoti- 
cally numerous racial, economic, unmoral as well as immoral 
associations and political groups, groping more or less blindly 
to find a way out of this cataclyistic condition of society. 
Those among the number who were dimly conscious of or 
could see the light asserted and re-asserted with the strong- 
est emphasis, that man is made in the image and likeness of 
God, and that allegiance to the Divine law must be under- 
stood and upheld universally in order to insure again the 
coming of the Kingdom of Heaven on the earth. 

The skeptic fails to- comprehend the immensity of the 
plan of the universe when he declares that had God the 
power which the multitude claim they believe He possesses, 
He should have changed the conditions, "by a wave of the 
hand," so as to have prevented the domination of evil which 
had been permitted to endure through long centuries. The 
earth is but one of uncountable thousands of worlds illumin- 
ating space : "In my Father's house are many mansions." 
The Creator has established a plan of creation considered as 
basic in respect to this planet — from this it does not neces- 
sarily follow that the system inaugurated here for develop- 
ment of planetary life is the same on other globes. The 
plan once established, however, the conditions governing 
earthly affairs must be fulfilled. If you place your finger in 
the fire it burns. Shall the conditions which make the fire 
be changed because fingers are burned? It is true that the 
intimate relation of the Divine with the mortal introduces 
remedial agents, nevertheless the fire will burn and the in- 
troduction of the remedy should not be considered as a ma- 
terialistic discovery or invention when in reality it is a Divine 
gift not to be abused. 

Why were not the miracles of photography, wireless 
telegraphy, and the flying machine performed a thousand 
years ago? No intelligent being will deny, in respect to the 
science of nature, that these miracles, or inventions, if you 
prefer, were not as possible then as today. The process of 
regeneration of degenerate man at that remote period was 
understood by a limited number only, the development of the 
leaven was slow, re-enlightenment had not become sufficient- 
ly general as to make it then practical to consider the aboli- 
tion of frontiers — which the flying machine today suggests. 
At that time the physical possibilities of the human structure 
were not fully understood or appreciated in the sense evident 
more general today. Moreover, it was not then known that 



FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 15 

the sinew muscles and frame of man could sustain the energy 
to fly, without the aid of power in addition to that normally 
within the mortal. In the process of regeneration of the in- 
habitants of this planet, the leaven of Bible history has at last 
been renewed and is found today in all sections of the earth. 
In some places it may be in bottles, as the virus vaccinus, and 
doubtless there are great hosts who are yet to understand its 
power and meaning. 

The Bible is a synopsis of a number of occurrences from 
creation to the time of Christ. Should it be regarded as im- 
possible that the Biblical records could have been compiled 
so as to present a striking analogy when considered in con- 
nection with contemporary events?. In the light of the 
achievements of the Deity, is it not comprehensible that the 
ancient writers, consciously or unconsciously, followed a plan 
of recording history and prophesy that would permit the em- 
ployment, in future centuries, of a factor to assist in a logi- 
cal interpretation, without regard to the obstacles attributed to 
changes in languages and epochs? Is it unreasonable to con- 
tend that the august Council, directed to superintend the de- 
tails governing the affairs of this planet, could have not fore- 
seen the development of a language and a symbol helpful in 
interpretation of the prophesy — of yesterday — in their compu- 
tation of time. 

Would it not be considered that the sum of the nine 
Arabic numerals, for example, which reduce to 9 ; the numeri- 
cal representation of the letters of the alphabet which total 
351 and equal the number of words in the ten commandments 
which reduce to 9; are records of expression subject to less 
liability of change during long intervals of time? The number 
of years is 1495 from the year of the birth of Jesus Christ 
to the discovery of the New World, and the world war began 
419 years later. The numerical representation of the verse of 
the Symbol is 419. Why 39, the Books in the Old Testament 
reveal the verse 9? Why 27, the Books in the New Testa- 
ment, reveal the chapter 13 and the number of the chapter 
and the verse together equal the number of all the chapters 
and so designate the Book? Finally, why should it be that 
from an aggregation of more than three million, five hundred 
thousand letters in the Bible, there is one grouping only into 
nine words of that number of letters equal to the. number of 
the Books of the Prophesy, and that series of twenty-seven 
letters divided into nine words classified under the number 9? 
To this the sensualist, the advocate of the doctrine that the 
senses are the sole source of knowledge — and his progeny, the 
materialist, will reply frigidly that it is a juggling of figures 
to delude and to establish a chain of coincidences, and at once 
dismiss the subject, or proceed to formulate analogy equally 



16 FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 

interesting from the point of view of the materialist and un- 
believer. Let it be noted it is offensive and inexcusable on 
the part of an intellectual to become unconscious of the 
Divine in the Universe — a postulate doomed to disappear. 
Transition from the temporary to the permanent existence 
awakens the conscience, that has denied its creation, as it is 
reflected in the mirror of destiny — desperation and despair. 

Further evidence of the great truth to democratize the 
world is in the last section of this pamphlet. Those who see 
the hand of God in prophesy will ponder, reflect and pray 
that the inhabitants of the world who are endeavoring to 
extricate themselves from the existing state of moral de- 
cadence caused by world-wide prostitution of talent and abili- 
ties in human affairs generally, out of which the world war is 
born, will influence the utmost power to remove forevermore 
the cancerous growth which is the cause for the moral and 
physical decline of the human race. (Revelation, Chapters 
xiii-xvii.) Man is made in the image and likeness of 
God. Denial of this great truth explains his fall, on the other 
hand acknowledgement is fulfillment and will enable him to 
rise again. 

The evidence herein is submitted for thoughtful consider- 
ation of all who believe the great truth that man is made in 
the image and likeness of God, that he can never separate 
his consciousness from his individuality — his being. By dis- 
tinguishing good from evil, true from false, rejecting all evil, 
his thoughts bring him into intimate relation with the Crea- 
tive Power. Conditions governing material affairs, in this 
dual state, are fulfilled by acceptance and obedience willingly 
to the enactments of the Deity in His administration of the 
destiny of man. Opposition is destruction ; recognition is 
construction — building of character until the truth becomes 
self evident to all the senses clothed in the physical body. To 
aid investigation to an intelligent understanding of natural, 
consequently scientific bodily existence, your attention is di- 
rected to the writings of Thomas Troward, considered, 
by the late Professor James, of Harvard University, and 
others, as foremost in philosophical and exegetical exposi- 
tion. 

Let it be admitted there has been conscientious well in- 
tentioned but much misdirected effort in behalf of the sci- 
ence of eugenics. Some writers fail entirely to concede the 
mandatory and imperative necessity on the part of mortals 
to give consideration to the spiritual forces, representative 
of the Power which renders decision, determining thereby 
whether or not unbreakable allegiance has been given to the 
cause known today as eugenics. Such allegiance means realiza- 



FULFILLMENT OF PROPHESY 17 

tion and permanent fulfillment of the plan of life proclaimed 
by the Creative Power. 

M. F. Parmelee in a volume that certainly is entitled to 
the utmost consideration as a highly developed contribution 
to the science he specializes comprehensively, fails to become 
disentangled, in one section therein, as it appears to some 
from the convolved and complex — possibly to his mind sim- 
ple — scheme of evolution. The possibility of the Divine in 
the mortal, that the Celestial Hierarchy works through moral 
excellence in human endeavor, is an association apparently 
not understood. 

It is true that earthly conditions favorable for this work 
are variable, as must be evident upon examination of material 
realities in life today. Evidence is available, however, that 
progress, in the interests consecrated to the promulgation of 
knowledge, the last quarter of a century especially, is extend- 
ed to every section of the earth. The leaven of the Divine 
in life is soon to come into its own through the natural agency 
of universal education. The mortal family was designed by 
the Deity with that object in view and the Fall in the pre- 
historic age is seen in the conditions on earth today. 

The reader is asked not to permit the ingenuities of 
warped mentality or materialistic tendencies to lead him to 
undervalue conscientious efforts to understand the purposes 
of creation; furthermore, he is advised to remember that the 
great miracle of life — Divine life in material body — is the 
masterpiece of creation. If you have belief, analyze your be- 
lief. If you have it not seek to acquire it and it will be 
given unto you. 



Democracy and 

Civiliza tio n — D es t ru c tio n 

of Prussianism. 



CHAPTER II 

HT HE symbol nine in the Bible: Book of Revelation, Chapter 
* xiii, Verse 9, in correlation with events of ancient history 
and those of the present time. 

"Despise not prophesyings." 

— First Thessalonians 5 : 20. 
"Let him that hath under- 
standing count the number of 
the beast" — Revelation 13 : 18. 
By addition or multiplication, 
or both, the nine Arabic nu- 
merals when reduced to one 
numeral equal nine. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. The addition is 
45, and 4 plus 5 are 9. The multiplication is 45360 and 4 
plus 5 plus 3 plus 6 are 18; and 1 plus 8 are 9. There are 
twenty-six letters in the alphabet from A-l to Z-26, and each 
letter has a number corresponding to its position in the alpha- 
bet. In other words, each letter has a numerical representa- 
tion ; for example, the letter B is represented by number 
2; H by number 8; L by number 12 — each letter in the 
alphabet having its corresponding number. The sum of all 
the letters in the alphabet, namely, the numerical representa- 
tion of the twenty-six letters added, is 351 ; and the ad- 
dition of 3, 5, and 1 — in the 351 — produces 9, which is the 
highest Arabic numeral ; and the multiplication of 3, 5 and 1 
produces 15, and the addition of 1 and 5 — in the 15 — produces 
6. The highest unit, the multiple of which is a unit is the 
figure three, 3X3—9; 3X9=27. Twenty-seven is the number 
which contains the three sixes and the great symbol nine. 
Thus it is by addition or multiplication, or both, where not 
otherwise specified, that the figures in the numbers are re- 
duced to one figure— the highest numeral which is 9. 

The Letters and Their Numerical Representation of the 
Alphabet. 

ABCDEFGHIJKLM 
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 

NOPQRSTUVWXYZ 
14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 

The numerical sum of the letters of the alphabet is 351, 
which is the first cipher of the symbol. 3 plus 5 plus 1 equal 9. 

The number of words in the Ten Commandments are 351.* 

Daniel xii : 7. Verse of the "Time Times and an Half" 
in the Book is number 3 5 1. 

The numbers of the Symbol, Book and Chapter : Revela- 
tion 27 and 13 multiplied make 351. 

* The fact that many translations have produced results slightly vari- 
able will not change the lesson in the narrative. 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 



19 



The first Christian Democracy in history — at birth — is 
the United States, and the last Christian Autocracy is the 
German Empire: 13 and 27 political divisions respectively — 
the numbers multiplied make 351. 

THE NINE WORDS IN THE VERSE OF THE 
SYMBOL. 

"IF ANY MAN HAVE AN EAR LET HIM HEAR." 



Interpretation 

of the 
Prophecy — Fall 
of World 
Autocracy. 
Rise of 
World Democ- 
racy — Mes- 
sage from the 
Republic of 
the United 
States to All 
Nations, April 

6, 1917. 

The Figures in 

the Year Reduce 

to Nine. 



"WHEREAS, the Imperial 
German Government has com- 
mitted repeated acts of war 
against the Government and 
the people of the United States 
of America : Therefore, be it 

"RESOLVED by the Sen- 
ate and House of Representa- 
tives of the United States of 
America in Congress assem- 
bled, That the state of war 
between the United States and 
the Imperial German Govern- 
ment which has thus been 
thrust upon the United States 
is hereby formally declared ; 
and that the President be, and 
he is hereby authorized and 
directed to employ the entire 
naval and military forces of 
the United States and the resources of the Government to 
carry on war against the Imperial German Government ; and 
to bring the conflict to a successful termination all of the 
resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress 
of the United States." 

Dynasty of Prussia is nine. 
(Ninth Dynasty.) Dynasty of 
German Empire is three. 
(Third Dynasty.) Multiply 
nine by three ; the result is 
twenty-seven, and two plus 
seven equal nine. 
The correlation of the Arabic numerals and the alphabet 
is to aid interpretation of prophesy bearing upon events of 
fundamental importance in history, Christianity and civiliza- 
tion. 

The discovery, by employment of the highest Arabic nu- 
meral with the numerical representation of the alphabet and 



Downfall 

of 
Kaiserism. 



20 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

the figure 6 in interpretation of certain chapters in the Books 
of Daniel and Revelation, defines how to correlate graphically 
momentous events in the Bible with those relative to the 
German Empire and the entry of the United States into the 
World War. 

By an analysis of the figures, numbers and phrases re- 
lating to the description of the last prophetic narrative in the 
Bible, and by application of the result of such analysis to 
certain marked events in the present epoch, there are at once 
revealed a series of reciprocal relations, and coincidences. 
These in extent and analogy denote the revelation, amazing 
and astounding though it may be, that contemporary history 
is the period mentioned and described in the Books of Daniel 
and Revelation. Moreover the Prussian masters of the Ger- 
man Empire, who have denied the German people equal suf- 
frage, the spiritual blindness and voluntary submission of the 
German people to the acts of their Prussian deities, make the 
conditions that have made the German Government re- 
sponsible for the most wicked and appalling catastrophies in 
the Christian Era. Is the picture too highly wrought? Is the 
pathos to be seen behind it — the absolute unmorality! 

"And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great 
things and blasphemy" (Revelation 13: 5). 

"Looking on myself as God's instrument, I shall go my 
way without regard to the ideas and opinions of the 
times." (Kaiser William Second, August 25, 1910, at Koenigs- 
berg). 

"The King of Prussia or the German Emperor must al- 
ways be in a position to say to any lieutenant : ' Take 
ten men with you and close the Reichstag.' " (Oldenburg 
Januschau, speaking for his master, the Kaiser). 

"By their fruits ye shall know them." The Prussian in- 
struction that deifies dominion and sanctifies vassalage if 
permitted to endure will lead to the destruction of all ideals. 
Such barbarous results, according to the Bible, will not take 
place ! Civilization will become enthroned upon the earth, 
as is evident to all who study the Scriptures, believe in Al- 
mighty God, understand and obey His ordinances. 

KAISER WILLIAM SECOND. 

Year of birth, 1859. 1X8X5X9=360: 3+6=9. 

Date of birth January twenty-seven. Two plus seven 
equals nine. The numerical representation of letters in the 
word January reduces to nine. 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 21 

The year of reign of Kaiser when he declared war is 
twenty-seven : Two plus seven equals nine. 

Revelation, Chapter thirteen, verse one : "And I stood 
upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the 
sea having seven heads, ten horns and upon his horns ten 
crowns and upon his head the name of Blasphemy." The 
sum of the numbers in this verse is twenty-seven, and the 
number reduces to nine. 

The words Autocracy and 
Submarine are interpreted 
from the word Blasphemy in 
the verse. 



Autocracy 
Submarine. 



Political 

Divisions of 

German 

Empire. 



A-l, Prussia; B-2, Bava- 
ria ; C-3, Saxony ; D-4, Wur- 
temburg; E-5, Baden; F-6, 
Hesse ; G-7, Mecklenburg- 
Schwerin ; H-8, Saxe-Weimer ; 
1-9, Mecklenburg- Strelitz; J-10, 
Oldenburg; K-ll, Brunswick; 
L-12, Saxe-Meiningen ; M-13, Saxe-Altenburg ; N-14, Saxe- 
Coburg-Gotha ; 0-15, Anhalt ; P-16, Schwarzburg-Sonder- 
hausen; Q-17, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ; R-18, Waldeck; S-\% 
Reuss-Greiz; T-20, Reuss-Schleiz; U-21, Schaumburg-Lippe ; 
V-22, Lippe; W-23, Lubeck; X-24, Bremen; Y-25, Hamburg; 
Z-26, Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine; &-27, the Lost 
Imperial Colonies. Total political divisions, twenty-seven. 
Two plus seven equal nine. 

Multiply the twenty-seven political divisions of the Ger- 
man Empire by the number of the chapter, thirteen, in the 
Book of Revelation containing the symbol, and the result is 
three hundred and fifty-one, which is the numerical sum of 
the number of letters of the alphabet. 

THE SIX SIXES. 
6 6 6 6 6 6 

Association of the three sixes in the eighteen verses respect- 
ively of Chapter XIII and XVIII, Book of Revelation; verse 
18 of Chapter XIII and the figure 6 seen in the period of 42 
months (4-2-6) verse 5 of the same Chapter, explains its use 
herein as a complement to the letters in some of the cipher 
illustrations, and more especially to the word kaiser. The 
synonym of "autocrat" is "kaiser," containing six letters, a 
figure six for each letter in the word. 

Thirty-six is the combined number of verses in the thir- 
teenth and seventeenth chapters of the Book of Revelation, 



22 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 



and they are the only chapters in the Book containing eighteen 
verses each. The number of books in the Bible is 66. 6X6 is 

the number of verses in the 
thirteenth and seventeenth 
chapters in the Book of Rev- 
elation. The figure 6 is iden- 
tified notably in the Bible in a 
number consisting of three 
sixes, indicating the beast that 
rises out of the si.a — subma- 
rine. The figure 6 is consid- 
ered symbolic of force and 
power and is employed as 
an adjunctive in some of the ci- 
pher illustrations herein. Care- 
ful examination of the two Books 27, Daniel and Revelation, 
Chapters 12 and 13, respectively, will reveal 6 in the "four 
verses of the numbers." 

Revelation, chapter thirteen, verse eighteen : "Here is 
wisdom: Let him that hath understanding, count the number 
of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number 
is Six Hundred Three Score and Six." 



Remarkable 
Scriptural 
Revelation. 
Kaiser and 

the Number. 

"Number and 
the Beast." 

"Six Hundred 

Three Score 
and Six." 



Remember the Alphabet, the Letter Numbers and the Beast 
Number. 

666666 666666 
GERMAN EMPIRE 
7 5 18 13 1 14 5 13 16 9 18 5 



13 11 24 19 7 20 11 19 22 15 24 11 

The total is one hundred and ninety-six which is the 
second cipher of the symbol. One multiplied by nine, by six 
equals fifty-four and five plus four equal nine. 



6 6 6 6 6 6 
KAISER 

11 1 9 19 5 18 

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 
WILLIAM 
23 9 12 12 9 1 13 

6 6 6 6 6 6 
SECOND 

19 5 3 15 14 4 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 23 

THE SUM OF THESE NUMERALS REDUCES TO 
NINE. A SIMILAR NUMERICAL ARRANGEMENT IN 
KAISER WILHELM SECOND REDUCES TO NINE. 

K 116 

A 16 

I 96 

S 196 

E 56 

R 186 

Number of the Beast 666 

6 6 6 6 6 6 — 36, reduce to 9 
KAISER 
11 1 9 19 5 18—63, reduce to 9 

17 7 15 25 11 24—99, reduce to 9 

Date of birth of Kaiser : year of 
reign at time of his declaration of war. 27 

The total is ninety-nine, which is the third cipher of the 
symbol. 

1 21 20 15 3 18 1 20=99 
AUTOCRAT 

Revelation, chapter thirteen, verse five : "And there was 
given unto him a month speaking great things and blas- 
phemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty 
and two months." 

Multiply chapter thirteen in the Book of Revelation, which 
is the twenty-seventh book, and the date of the birth of the 
Kaiser, and the result is the sum of the numerical representa- 
tion of the letters of the alphabet, namely, three hundred and 
fifty-one. Three plus five plus one equal nine. 

Multiply chapter thirteen of the Book of Revelation by 
twenty-seven which was the year of the reign of the Kaiser, 
the year he proclaimed what is destined to be the greatest 
holocaust in the history of true Christian era and the result 
is three hundred fiftv-one. 

MULTIPLY THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST, SIX 
HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX, BY FORTY-TWO 
MONTHS' DURATION OF POWER IN THE WAR AND 
THE RESULT IS 2 79 72. TWO PLUS SEVEN PLUS 
NINE PLUS SEVEN PLUS TWO EQUALS TWENTY- 
SEVEN. TWO PLUS SEVEN EQUALS NINE. THE 
RESULT READS THE SAME BOTH WAYS AND EX- 
PRESSES 2 7 TWICE THEREIN BOOKS OF DANIEL 
AND REVELATION. THE RESULT NOT ONLY CON- 
TAINS THE CIPHER OF THE BATTLE OF THE 



The Correlation 
of Numbers 
Relating to Years 
and Dates of 
Certain Events 
of Importance 
in the History 

of the 
United States 
and the War. 



24 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

MARNE, BUT THE NUMBERS PRODUCE BY ADDI- 
TION, SUBTRACTION, MULTIPLICATION, AND DI- 
VISION INTERPRETATION OF SIGNIFICANT 
EVENTS. 

Multiply number of chapter 13 in the Book of Revelation, 
by number of verses in the chapter, and the result is 234. 
2-f-3-j-4=9. The significance oi 2 3 4 will appear later in a 
message from the top of the dome of the Capitol in Wash- 
ington. 

The last book in the New Tes- 
tament is (27), and verse nine, 
chapter thirteen, contains nine 
words and twenty-seven letters. 
These five numbers are as fol- 
lows : 27, 9, 13, 9, 27. 
These figures, singly and by 
combination, make units co- 
inciding with dates which 
bear upon world events 
relating to autocracy and de- 
mocracy. Fifty-eight is the age 
of the Kaiser at time of entry 
of the United States into the war. Twenty-seven is the Po- 
litical Divisions of the German Empire. Thirteen is the 
original number of States at birth of American nation. Forty- 
nine is the number of States of the Union and the District of 
Columbia in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen. 

Read the Book of Revelation, chapter thirteen. The num- 
ber of verses in the chapter are eighteen. One plus eight 
are NINE (1). The verse of the 666 is eighteen. One plus 
eight are NINE (2). The verse of the symbol is NINE (3). 
The words in the verse of the symbol are NINE (4). The 
letters in the words of the verse are 27. Two plus seven 
are NINE (5). The sum of the five NINES is equal to the 
sum of the nine Arabic numerals, which is forty-five. 

The Congressional representation of the American Nation 
number 531, the units therein are the same as those in the nu- 
merical representation of the alphabet. 

The days, weeks, and 
months representing the period 
beginning with the declaration 
of war by AUTOCRACY and 
the entry into war by DEMOC- 
RACY are 979, 139, and 33, 
respectively — August 2, 1914 
(9); April 6, 1917 (9)— and 
these numbers reduce to nine. 



Admonition. 

Warning. 

Revelation. 

Chapter Thirteen, 

Verse Nine. 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE. 25 

Book of Daniel, chapter XII, verses 11 and 12, contains 
two numbers and a suggestion if not a declaration of the 
duration of power of the beast mentioned in Book of 
Revelation, chapter XIII, verse 5. Attention is asked par- 
ticularly to the nine Arabic numerals, as they link the two 
periods of time mentioned by Daniel and reveal the name of 
the prophet. The numerical representation of Daniel is 45, 
which reduces to 9. 

Is it a coincidence the words in the ten commandments 
and the numerical representation of the alphabet are of the 
same number? That the number of commandments and the 
letters of the alphabet point to the numbers of the Book, 
chapter, verse, words and letters in the verse of the Symbol? 
That the letters in MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN 
PERES (Daniel V) are the same number as those of the 
alphabet? 

From the covenant of God in Horeb, to the Nativity of 
Jesus Christ, the number of years are considered 72 score, 
which is the number of the score of the letters in the ten 
commandments. Singular it is also to ascertain that the let- 
ters in the ten commandments, and those in the two great 
commandments in the New Testament, added to the numeri- 
cal representation of the alphabet, number 1917 — the year of 
the entry of the oldest neutral Democracy in the New World 
into the world war. 

The score, twenty, in Greco-Roman times, was employed 
generally. In its application today, in association with events 
recorded in the Book of Revelation, is it significant that the 
number of score in the period of days of power of the beast 
is 63? It is the number of the Congress of the United States 
the year the Kaiser declared war. The numerical representa- 
tion of the word KAISER is 63, the same as PERES, and 
portentous is the suggestion of doom to the dynasty of degra- 
dation. 

The number of the beast in the Book of Revelation is 
666, the number of the score thus represented is 33. The 
number 666 indicates in months the age of the chief of the 
present dynasty of autocracy in the German Empire, at the 
time of his declaration of war. The ninth Prussian dynasty 
is in score 96, of the Christian Era and the figures here are 
the symbol and the six, and the result by multiplication of 
these figures reveals the Books 27 in the Old and New Testa- 
ments and these figures reduce to 9. The number 33, it is 
reverently stated, is the year A. D., of the Passion of Christ. 
Furthermore, 33 is the Presidential term of the American 
Commonwealth, the year of the entry of the United States 



26 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

into the world war. It will be noted that all the numbers 
preceding, respectively, reduce to 9. 

Give heed to the similarity of the message and consider 
the correlation in numbers respectively of chapters, verses, 
and letters (XIII, 9) of the first and last Books in the New 
Testament. The numbers of these two Books, and therein 
the chapters thirteen, verses nine, the words and letters in 
the two verses respectively total figures of the same denomin- 
ation though arranged in reverse order. The addition of the 
totals of each set of figures make thirteen. Thirteen is the 
number of the chapters and of the score of the 260 chapters 
in the New Testament. The numbers of the first and last 
Books and the two chapters thirteen (1+13+27+13=54) 
make the number of the Book Daniel (27) and Revelation 
(27) together. Division of the number of letters in the al- 
phabet, and the number of words in the ten commandments, 
respectively, by 13, is 27. Thus chapter 13, the 27 Books in 
the New Testament, and Book 27, therein of the symbol are 
established. 



The reduction to nine of the figures bearing upon great 
events in history, and in prophesy, is evident upon examina- 
tion of the source from whence is derived the data preceding. 
It will be noted furthermore, that the number nine is a logi- 
cal symbol. Elemental knowledge seen in the. universe, as 
well as events revealed and relating to the earliest traces of 
intelligence on this planet presage that symbol. The period 
in months of gestation of the mortal with the soul immortal 
is indicated by the figure 9. The 66 letters in the names of 
the 9 muses reduce to 9. The solar system, the sun and the 
eight major planets, of which the earth is one, make nine. 
The figures which describe the distance of the sun from the 
earth reduce to nine. The number of days in the revolution 
of this planet around the sun reduce to nine, and the num- 
ber of the score therein reduce to nine. The unit of time 
is a second. The number of seconds in the revolution of 
this planet on its axis — twenty-four hours — reduce to nine. 

Change again the scene, return from the distant space 
to the earth, and observe the caution to keep the ten com- 
mandments. The number of Books in the Old and New 
Testaments, singly or together; the number of words in the 
ten commandments, and in the Lord's Prayer, each reduce 
to nine. The words in the ten commandments are 351. Read 
from right to left they define the numerical representation 
of MENE TEKEL PERES— 153— interpretation of the hand- 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 27 

writing on the wall. Furthermore, the number of words and 
letters in MENE TEKEL PERES KAISER WILLIAM 
SECOND are 39. These 6 words and 33 letters have a 
suggestion of terror to the Kaiser and his hosts. 
They designate, through addition, the Books in the Old Testa- 
ment : by subtraction, the Books in the New Testament ; by 
multiplication — 6x3x3 — to Book 27 in the Old Testament, and 
to Book 27 in the new (54) and by division in 54 of the 
symbol 9. Alpha and Omega, by the same procedure reduce 
to nine and confirm the identity of the number — the begin- 
ning and the end — as the great symbol in chapter XIII, verse 
9, book 27, of the New Testament with Book 27 of the Old 
Testament, and the number of each of these Books reduce 
to nine. 



Day 18, Month 9, Year 1793: It is interesting to note 
that heretofore unobserved correlation of the figures of the 
date of placing the corner stone in the foundation of the first 
temple to Democracy in the world, with those of the Book 
27 in the New Testament, and the symbol 9, and to perceive 
their relation to the interpretation of the destruction of 
Autocracy. Prescience of the symbol nine and cipher of the 
MARNE, is recorded eternally by the unit of measurement 
in a revelation, through numbers which characterize the 
first capitol edifice in the world, erected as a seat of 
Justice and Law, by a nation consecrated at its origin by 
the Soul of Christianity — the democratic principle in govern- 
ment. The area of the Capitol, the diameter and the height 
of the rotunda each reduce to 9. The nemesis to appear 
as a menace to Democracy is not surmised at first in the 
figures to follow the combination of those constituting the 
latitude and longitude of the site— 2 3 4. Survey of the 
height of the dome of the Capitol (*) from the base line 
of the East develops figures in reverse order — 4 3 2, and 



(*) The Capitol at Washington has an area expressed in the unit of 
measurement — 22.048128 square inches. 

The diameter and the height respectively of the rotunda are 1170 and 
2163 inches; together 3333 inches, (3x3x3x3 = 81, cipher of the Battle 
of the MARNE.) 

The latitude 38° 53' 20" .4 North and the longitude 77° 00' 35" .7 
West— 234. 

The height of dome 3449 inches, by multiplication, 432. 

The height of the statue of Freedom 234 inches. (Nine is the final 
factor in all results preceding.) 

The greatest dimension of the Capitol, in feet from East to West 
is 3 5 0. , . , 

The greatest diameter at the base of the dome, expressed in the unit 
of measurement is 2 62 5 : See Daniel XII, 11 and 12. 



28 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

in their addition to those preceding, suggest a mirage of the 
beast. More remarkable, however, is the revealment in the 
prophetic message — one that might be considered a correla- 
tion from heaven — seen in the statue of Freedom, standing 
on the apex of the dome of the Capitol. The numerical 
representation of Freedom is the same as the number of 
Books in the Bible (66). The figures describing the height 
of the statue contain the symbol nine, and in inches, (the 
unit of measurement), number — 2 3 4, thus denoting that 
Christianity changes the beast by rising above all 
human agencies and obliterates the emblem 666 so as to 
cause it to disappear forever into the fires of democ- 
racy — the power of good to overcome evil, a power now 
increased to (900) twenty-fold, into a score — of the sum of 
the nine Arabic numerals (900) the lowest factor in which 
is the symbol 9. Freedom is another signal from the 
Divine, indicating one source of power to the support of the 
angel in prophesy that is to destroy the beast? 



"IF ANY MAN HAVE AN EAR LET HIM HEAR." 

In this verse, the verse of the symbol, there are twenty- 
seven letters. Two plus seven equals nine. 

66 666 666 6666 66 



I 

9 


F 
6 


AN Y 
1 1425 


MA N 
13 1 14 


HAVE 
8 1 22 5 


A N 
1 14 




6 


6 6 


6 6 


6 


6 t 


i 6 


6 6 


6 6 




EAR 

5 1 18 


LET 

12 5 20 


H I 

8 9 


M 

13 


HEAR 

8 5 1 18 



The total of this numerical representation is four hundred 
and nineteen, which is the fourth cipher of the symbol. Mul- 
tiply four by one by nine and the result is thirty-six. Three 
plus six are nine. 

6666 66666 

HOLY BIBLE 
8 15 12 25 2 9 2 12 5 

The total of this numerical representation is one hundred 
and forty-four, which is the fifth cipher of the symbol. One 
plus four plus four equal nine. 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 29 

The correlation of the sum of the numerical alphabet to 
the symbol nine in the Scriptural prophecy. 

Books in New Testament 27x351 Reduces to 9 

Chapters in Book of Revelation 22x351 Reduces to 9 

Book of Revelation, Chapter Seventeen . 17x351 Reduces to 9 

Book of Revelation, Chapter Thirteen. . 13x351 Reduces to 9 
Book of Revelation, Chapter Thirteen, 

Verse Nine 9x351 Reduces to 9 

The sum of the Nine Arabic Numerals 45 

The symbol verse nine contains twelve distinct letters of 
the alphabet, A. E. F. H. I. L. M. N. R. T. V. Y. The sum 
of the numerical representation of these twelve letters is the 
inversion of the numerical alphabet 153. 

Within these twelve letters of the symbol verse nine is 
found the name of the battle which saved Christianity and 
the civilization of the world. 

6 6 6 6 6 
M A R N E 
13 1 18 14 5 

The total of this numerical arrangement is EIGHTY- 
ONE, which is the sixth cipher of the symbol. The sum of 
the figures in the word Marne reduce to nine and the six. 
Nine is the symbol of the Battle of the Marne. Month nine 
(September 5 to 13, both inclusive) days nine. The sum of 
the addition of the dates of the battle from five to thirteen, 
both inclusive, is EIGHTY-ONE and reduces to nine. The 
number of the year of the Battle of the Marne, 1914, reduces 
to nine. 



One of the many purposes of this narrative is to direct 
attention to the presence of the "beast," to the significance of 
that word. The meaning is the embodiment of brutal force 
under guise of autocracy and plutocracy, the patronizing pre- 
sumptuous autocrat falsely designated the "superman." In 
this connection consideration is again invited to Chapter 
XVII, Book of Revelation, which describes a condition com- 
parable with those of today. To the minds of manv this con- 
dition is born from the worship of gold and the monstrosity 
classified as the "super-being," male and female. Consciously 
or unconsciously, brazenly or secretly, the practice of the 
forces of evil have built their foundation on an apex doomed 
to totter and fall. Read observinglv Books 27, Old and New 



30 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

Testaments, reflect upon the injunctions in the ordinances of 
the Divine, you can then see that had they been universally 
obeyed the earth today would have been a star in the firma- 
ment of heaven and not, as suggested by some, whirling in 
the vortex of hell. 

The last chapter in Daniel — Book 27 Old Testament — 
contains the symbol and expresses it three times: "1335" (9). 
"1290" (9), and the sum of the nine Arabic numerals, forty- 
five (9) is the result of the difference in these two numbers. 
The sum of these three nines is twenty-seven, the number of 
the last Book in the New Testament. 

The six cipher illustrations to follow, total 1,290, and re- 
duce respectively to nine. 

First Cipher 351 

Second Cipher 196 

Third Cipher 99 

Fourth Cipher 419 

Fifth Cipher 144 

Sixth Cipher 81 

1290 

The number 1290, the total of six ciphers preceding, desig- 
nates the world war and desolation to which attention is 
directed by Jesus. (Matthew xxiv, 15). 

"If any man have an ear to hear, let him hear." Read 
the story of the two Books 27 in the Bible — Daniel and Reve- 
lation. 

The period in years from the Book of Daniel — The Hand 
Writing on the Wall (579 B. C.) to (A. D. 1914) is 2493. 
The difference between 579 and 1914 is 1335. (Daniel xii, 12). 
"Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand, three 
hundred and five and thirty days." — 1335. 

(Daniel xii, 11). "And from the time that the daily 
sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh 
desolate set up, there shall be a thousand, two hundred and 
ninety days." — 1290. 

This message is not for the scoffers, but to those who 
believe in the Records of the Bible. To the 1290 add the 
number of the beast, 666 (Revelation xiii, 18) and the result 
is 1956. Deduct the number of months, 42 (Revelation xiii, 
5) and the result is 1914, the year of the beginning by 
autocracy, of the world war against the true spirit of Christi- 
anity, Democracy and Civilization. 

The two periods mentioned in the Book of Daniel, name- 
ly 1290 and 1335, make 2625. Deduct the number of the 
beast, 666, and the result is 1959, and from this number de- 
duct the number of months, 42, and the result is 1917, the 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 31 

year of the entry of the United States into the world war 
against autocracy and in behalf of the true spirit of Christi- 
anity, Democracy and Civilization. Subtract 1290 from 1335 
and the remainder is 45 — the sum of the nine Arabic numer- 
als. The six letters in the word DANIEL numerically are 45. 

Evidence of the Symbol begins with the creation of the 
alphabet and the numerals : (a) the numerical representa- 
tion of the alphabet; (b) the nine Arabic numerals; (c) the 
words of the ten commandments; (d) the name of the Book 
27 — Daniel ; all respectively reduce to 9. These four results 
of nine each are the six sixes, the thirty-six verses in the 
only chapters in the Book of Revelation containing 18 verses 
each, namely 13 and 17. Chapter 17 tells the reason for the 
depraved social and unlawful economic forces of the present 
day and the conditions which have led to the world war. 

The synonym of AUTOCRAT is KAISER. One of the 
six sixes is for each letter in the word KAISER, and the re- 
sult is 36. As herein before mentioned, 63 — the reverse of 
36 — is the numerical representation of KAISER; also of 
PERES, in Book of Daniel, Old Testament, in which is pro- 
nounced the punishment for the AUTOCRAT and the 
PLUTOCRAT. Observe carefully this numerical representa- 
tion 63 and the result to follow when added to the three sixes 
— 666. The figures are 7 2 9, and these units added make 18, 
which is the number of the verse of the "beast." Multiply 
7X2X9 and significant is the meaning, as will be seen, in the 
result 126. 

The addition of 36 to 63 make 99, and these two units (9 
and 9) added make 18 — the verse in the Chapter of the Sym- 
bol ; multiplied, the result is 81 — the cipher of the Battle of 
the MARNE, which number is the reverse of the number in 
the Bible of that verse containing the 666 — signifying reversal 
— loss of power of the beast — the autocrat. Furthermore, 99 
reveals the numerical representation of AUTOCRAT. 

1 21 20 15 3 18 1 20=99 
AUTOCRAT 

Combine the numerical representation of KAISER, 63, with 
that of PERES, 63, and the result, 126, reveals the numerical 
representation of PLUTOCRAT. 

16 12 21 20 15 3 18 1 20=126 
P LUTOCRAT 

Thus Book 27 of the Old Testament and Book 27 of the 
New foretell the fall of the KAISER-AUTOCRAT and the 
PLUTOCRAT. By adding the numbers of each of these 
two Books of the Bible, namely 27 and 27, to the 99 (Auto- 



32 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

crat) and the result is 153— MENE TEKEL PERES. By 
adding the numbers of either one of these Books of the Bible 
to 126 (Plutocrat) the answer again is 153— MENE TEKEL 
PERES, the handwriting on the wall, the banishment of au- 
tocracy and plutocracy from the earth. The reverse of the 
numerical representation of the letters of the alphabet is 153, 
and the reverse of the number of words in the ten command- 
ments is 153, together they make 306, which figures signify 
the Great Symbol and the three sixes. 



The foremost propitious material event, so regarded by 
many, in the history of the New World, in its relation with 
the Old, is the arrival of an American army on the continent 
of Europe ; "An American Army Lands in France." That the 
news of this achievement was first made public in the 
United States on the 27th day of the 6th month of the year, 
in a cable message containing just six words and twenty- 
seven letters, will be regarded by many doubtlessly, and 
naturally, as an incident less than insignificant. Although 
the day and the month is only another illustration of the re- 
ciprocal relation of present events with the three sixes and 
the symbol of the prophets ; still it may be a matter of some 
interest to know that the numbers of the day, month 
and year, added together reduce to the sum of nine 
Arabic numerals and then to the nine of the Symbol. 
Furthermore: By addition of the seven figures (day 
27; month 6; year 1917;) 2+7+6+1+9+1+7 the result is 
33 — the symbol number and the six — 3X3=9 — 3+3=6 — 96. 
Thirty-three is the number of letters in MENE TEKEL 
PERES KAISER WILLIAM SECOND, and it's the number 
of the Presidential term of the American Commonwealth. 
Finally, the name of the leader of the Army of the Ameri- 
can Democracy in France is 

16 5 18 19 8 9 14 7=96 
PERSHING 
Again the symbol number and the six — 9x6=54, the number 
of the two Books ; Daniel and Revelation : The date of the 
birth of the Kaiser (autocracy) and the number of States 
in his Empire. 



The story and the glory of the great symbol nine has now 
advanced to the period of the lottery of the Divine, the great- 
est known in history. The draft is to insure completion of 
the democratization of the world; to establish universally the 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 33 

socialism of Christianity as expressed in the two great com- 
mandments of Jesus (Matthew xii, 37-40). The lottery de- 
veloped four commanding characteristics the subject of uni- 
versal comment throughout the Nation, namely : number of 
total numbers drawn, first number, last number, number that 
failed to be drawn. These four numbers are, respectively, 
10499, 258, 3217, 5794. By interposition, singular and un- 
precedented, the urn of the lottery numbers contained one 
blank. Why this happened is not yet disclosed, if known. 
It is possible that the number of blanks might have 
been two, three, four or more, but there was one only, 
the extent of the precaution to prevent it notwithstanding. 
The numbers drawn, 10,499, by addition and multiplication, 
respectively, produce 23 and 324, and both of these numbers 
have marked significance supplementing the testimony that 
the days of the present is the period in the Books of Daniel 
and Revelation which foretell the World War. 

This is clearly demonstrable, the number of the verses 
are established, and reveal the year 1914 when autocracy 
began the war, and the year 1917, when the Power of the 
American Republic, from its birth a democracy, enters into 
the war. The verses are 11 and 12 (23) in Book 27 
Old Testament, and verses 5 and 18 (23) in Book of the 
symbol, 27 of New Testament, together comprising the four 
verses of the numbers, expressing the number 23, which 
is the addition of digits of 1 4 9 9, the total numbers drawn. 
They are the only verses in the Bible that specifically and 
directly reveal the number of the years, 1914 and 1917. The 
verses of the numbers are 4, and the employment of 4 in di- 
vision of 324 — see above — produces the cipher of the Battle of 
the Marne (81), the highest multiple of a single unit (9). 
Furthermore, the addition of each figure, in single sequence, 
in the four verses of the numbers produce 48 (12+12+6-1-18 
=48) the number of States in the American Union, the sub- 
ject later possibly, of another revelation. 

The first number drawn in the lottery — 258 — contains the 
Symbol nine and the six — no more or less. Why another 
number, with figures to equal the Symbol and the six was 
not drawn first is not in evidence. The last number drawn, 
3 2 17, clearly expresses the Book, chapter and verse of the 
Symbol, and verse five, of the "forty-two months' power of 
the beast." This number, 3 2 1 7 by addition make 13, the 
number of the chapter of the Symbol; by multiplication 42, 
the number signifiying the period of power of the Deast. 

Why the blank in the lottery was not drawn later or 
earlier in the series, and as a result another number com- 
puted — if possible — other than 5 7 9 4 is not revealed. It is 
admittedly possible that the blank might have been drawn 



34 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

earlier or later, but it is sufficient to state it was not. The 
completed analogy, in chronological order, now to be dis- 
closed, would be impossible with any other number in 
the entire series of ten thousand four hundred and ninety- 
nine drawn numbers. Without regard to the chronological 
order there were two chances only, the one above and 4 9 7 5, 
but this number would place the chapter in Revelation before 
the one in Daniel whereas it should follow. The lottery has 
already revealed the verses in the Bible that tell the number 
of the years of the beginning of the war and the entry of 
the American Republic therein. It now remains by correla- 
tion and analogy to reveal the numbers of the chapters in the 
Bible, which contain the four verses of the numbers. The 5 
and 7 above make 12 (Daniel xii) and the 9 and 4 make 13 
(Revelation xiii). In sequence they read 5 7 9 4. Note the 
first and last figures from left to right and you have 54, and 
from right to left, 45, the former identifying Books 27 in the 
Old and New Testaments, the latter the numerical representa- 
tion of the word DANIEL, and the sum of the nine Arabic 
numerals. The two figures 7, 9, in the number 5 7 9 4, bv 
multiplication of the 7 and the 9 make 6 3, which is the num- 
erical representation of the word KAISER, and 
PERES, the punishment for the Autocrat, as revealed in 
the hand writing on the wall. Thus is concluded the demon- 
stration that the cause in which the lottery is employed is 
divine. 

It remains to be stated in closing that this narrative will 
achieve the object sought, if careful attention is given to the 
fundamental truth — the association of the Divine in human 
affairs. Full appreciation is acknowledged of the wonderful 
development in material discoveries and in the sciences. 
What is lamentably stupid, if not inexcusable, is failure of 
many to recognize the source of all knowledge and to compre- 
hend that intelligent application of same establishes the King- 
dom of Heaven on earth. The subject herein is not treated 
mechanically, it is not a mechanized creation, not simply a 
chance arrangement of figures. "None are so blind as those 
who will not see." The division of Bible chapters into verses 
long after the Christian era began is of no concern here be- 
yond the statement that none, who believe in a Deity, will 
deny that the wisdom of the Deity can establish division of 
chapters, through human agencies, by the same procedure He 
has revealed how to transmit the wireless messages and to 
design the aeroplane. 

A simple and elemental truth is the knowledge that the 
period for the destruction of the products of nature is regu- 
lated by circumstances governing material changes and can 
be predicted with accuracy. Is it to be denied the Deity of 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 35 

the Universe, and the Council in charge of the affairs of the 
Solar System, in which this planet is a division, cannot fore- 
see the period required to complete the economic adjust- 
ments, momentous in their meaning, by war or peaceful 
revolution and thus to insure regeneration of the world. 
The Creative Power at the time of the preparation of the 
messages in the Books of Daniel and Revelation, by logic 
invincible it is evident, understood the period to transpire in 
the regeneration process to create a condition in planetary 
affairs experienced at the present time. In lesser degree, 
in a far more elementary way, though gradually expanding, 
the human being can foretell events : What is to be the con- 
dition of the harvest if it remains uncut, in one, two or three 
years — the disintegration. In this there is no mystery. It 
is not mysticism. That which appears, apparently, to some 
as mystic is the knowledge that the mind, given by the 
Creator, fails to see the first object of the gift, but the cause 
of this blindness by others is understood. 

The quantity or number of elements employed herein are 
not calculated or considered. It may be of interest to some 
to know that possibly as many as five thousand different 
numbers are obtainable in groups of two, and in three figures. 
It will be seen from this that the possible combinations are 
not only so few, or so small, that the. correlations established 
are simply and easily the consequence of chance solely, and not 
the revelation of prophesy. Furthermore reflection upon the 
considerable quantity of possible combinations, and the ac- 
curacy of the analogies drawn therefrom, may impress 
the sensualist especially and his associate, the materialist, that 
the ways of the Creator from their point of view are past 
understanding. 

The conclusion is at hand to what may appear to some 
as a singular narrative, and the cipher of the Battle that saved 
Christianity and Civilization, that is to destroy autocracy — 
the beast 666 — is considered established. The evil conditions 
have arisen by breaking the commandments of God. "If any 
man have an ear to hear let him hear." The development of 
the beast on this planet is attributed to the attempt to redesign 
the divine human being under materialistic, pseudo-religious 
and pseudo-scientific doctrines and practices, ignoring the 
commandments in the Old and New Testaments, disregard- 
ing the injunctions therein. Innumerable messages, signs and 
symbols are in evidence accordingly. A number of ways are 
found to remind the multitude, who are indifferent or igno- 
rant, that the ways of God are divine, and to some, tempo- 
rarily, they are past understanding. As has been stated, one 
of the many revelations of this truth is indicated in the dia- 
gram of the years of the beginning of the war. By 



36 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

some this will be considered a coincidence, that has no 
significance, as will be said, of all that has preceded. The 
value of the illustration is not destroyed if the prophesies in 
the Book of Daniel are a myth. The Deity works in ways 
mysterious to some and not to others. The Power that es- 
tablishes the juxtaposition of planets at defined intervals of 
time, can express warning and a lesson in reciprocal relation 
of material events, without appealing to superstition. The 
problem is to understand your relation to God. You must 
not expect God to do for you what He has ordered shall be 
done through you. The inverted use of the creative power of 
thought explains the terrible condition on the earth today. 
The right use establishes the freedom of mankind, and this 
freedom, through instruction, should be promulgated with 
rapidity, by conscription methods, if necessary, in every dis- 
trict in the world. 



"LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT 
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST." 

Cipher of the Battle that saved Civilization and the 
Cipher of the Fall of Autocracy. 

CIPHER OF THE MARNE 81 9 

Date of birth of Kaiser 27 9 

Year of reign of Kaiser, at time of 

his declaration of war 27 9 

Political Divisions German Empire 27 9 

DANIEL, VERSE 351 : ALPHABET 351 9 

MENE TEKEL PERES 153 9 

Number of Book Daniel, Old Testa- 
ment 27 9 

Number of Book Revelation, New 

Testament 27 9 

Number of letters in the verse of 

the Great Symbol 27 9 

AGAIN THE CIPHER OF THE — 

MARNE 81 81 

NUMBER OF THE BEAST 666 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 37 

Observe the significance of the cipher of the Battle of 
the MARNE — 81. It is created out of the highest unit in- 
to the highest multiple of a unit. The multiple contains the 
sum of the nine Arabic numerals — 45. It contains also an- 
other number, of two figures which together make nine and 
equivalent to the number of words and letters to be found 
in one verse only in the Holy Bible — the verse of the Great 
Symbol Nine. 



REVELATION OF THE PREDICTION OF THE DIS- 
COVERY OF THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND 
THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED STATES IN 
THE BOOKS DANIEL AND REVELA- 
TION IN THE BIBLE. 

In the fifth chapter of Daniel the three verses 2 6, 2 7 
and 2 8 contain MENE TEKEL PERES. The numbers of 
these three verses added make 8 1. Verse 3 5 1 in the Book 
of Daniel is the verse of the "Time times and an half." The 
number 8 1 added to 3 5 1 make 4 3 2. The three words 
MENE TEKEL PERES numerically are 1 5 3, a number 
which is the inversion of both the numerical alphabet and the 
number of the verse in the Book of Daniel quoted above. 
The number 81 added to 1 5 3 make 23 4 — the inversion of 
the number 4 3 2 mentioned above. The numbers 4 3 2 and 
2 3 4 added make 6 6 6, the number which is emblematic of 
autocracy and plutocracy. The number 2 3 4 is emblematic 
of world freedom to follow the ending of the world war. 
Turn to page 27 and read that the statue of Freedom on the 
dome of the Capitol of Washington expresses the number 
2 3 4 in the unit of measurement. 

Seventy-two is the number of verses in the Book of 
Daniel that contain the name DANIEL, and in these 7 2 
verses the name DANIEL appears 8 1 times. A remarkable 
association is found upon addition of 7 2 to the 8 1 as the 
result is 1 5 3— MENE TEKEL PERES— the hand writing 
on the wall. The addition of the chapters in Daniel — 7 8 — to 
the number of verse — 7 — in the last chapter and the words 
in the verse— 68 — is 15 3. It will be remembered that verse 
seven in the last chapter is verse 3 5 1 in the Book of Daniel. 

In the last chapter of Daniel the word DANIEL ap- 
pears therein three times, once each in verses 4, 5 and 9. 
The numbers of these three verses added make 1 8— inversion 
of 8 1, see above ; and 1 8 added to 2 7— which is the number 
of the Book of Daniel, inversion of number 7 2, see above; 



38 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

make 4 5. The name DANIEL numerically is 4 5, which 
number is the sum of the nine Arabic numerals. 

The inversion of the numbers 8 1 and 2 7 in sequence 
of four digits produce 18 7 2. The number 1872 is hidden 
in the verse 3 5 1. The numerical Daniel is 4 5. Add 4 5 
to 18 7 2 and the result is 1917. The year of the entry of 
the American Republic into war to insure perpetuation of 
democracy and Christianity. Read the verse 3 5 1. Listen to 
the message: "And I heard the man clothed in linen, which 
was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right 
hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that 
liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times and an half, 
and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of 
the holy people, all these things shall be finished." 

The power of the holy people is extended — scattered — to 
all sections on earth. Within the past two decades the seed 
of democracy and spirit of Christianity is scattered every- 
where. In the year 1872 the exploration of the unknown 
reaches of Africa was completed. 

Add the number of the numerical DANIEL — 4 5 — to the 
number of each verse in the last chapter in which the word 
DANIEL appears and the addition of the three results is 
1 5 3— MENE TEKEL PERES. Read the interpretation of 
these three words : The fall of autocracy and plutocracy. 
"God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it." "Thou 
art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting." "Thy 
kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians." 
The numerical representation of the two words MEDES and 
PERSIANS is identical with that representing the cipher of 
the battle of the MARNE and FREEDOM. The fulfillment 
of the prophecy in the verses 2 6, 2 7 and 2 8 is through 
democracy and freedom. DEMOCRACY and FREEDOM 
numerically is 15 3. Singular is the reciprocal relation of the 
numbers. 

The Books of Daniel and Revelation contain the prophesy 
of the advent of Christianity in the Western Hemisphere and 
the year 1492 is specified. The first year of the first nation 
in the world at birth a Christian democracy is 17 7 6 and 
this year is also foretold specifically. The world war; partici- 
pation therein by the United States; and the prodigious 
events relating to the conditions antecedent, and to the con- 
duct of the war, is the, major subject of Daniel and Revela- 
tion. 

Search and it shall be revealed unto you. The number of 
Books from the beginning of the Bible to and inclusive of 
the Book of Daniel is 2 7. Daniel is also Book number 2 7. 
In the New Testament similar conditions exist in respect to 



THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 39 

the number of Books which is 2 7, and Revelation is Book 
2 7. The number of the Books from the beginning of the 
Old Testament to the Book of Daniel inclusive as above 
stated is 2 7 : this number added to the numbers of the Chap- 
ter 5, verse 5, and the fingers 5 (see the verse) in the Book 
of Daniel, make 4 2. Consult Diagram of the years of the 
world war and you will find 2 7, 2 3, 2 7. 2 3, added these 
four numbers make 10 0; and 100 added to 4 2, the result 
is 142. 

Again the number 14 2 but in a different way. Daniel 
Book 2 7, chapter 5, verse 5, Chapter 1 2, verses 7, 1 1 and 
12; and Revelation Book 2 7, Chapter 13, verses 5 and 18. 
All these verses are none other than those which from the 
contents, as clearly evident, relate to the prophecy of the 
period of the coming together of the nations of the earth. 
The addition of these numbers make 14 2. 

The verification of this number 142 is obtained by con- 
sulting Daniel V-5, which is verse 14 2 in the Book of Daniel. 
Momentous and tragic is the story that begins in verse 14 2. 
"In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and 
wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the 
wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the 
hand that wrote." 

Turn now to Daniel viii-14. This verse reads: "And he 
said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days then 
shall the sanctuary be cleansed." The sanctuary of the old 
world would be in need of cleansing, as subsequent events 
have demonstrated, and a step to that end was the re-dis- 
covery of the new world, and the building of a nation to be 
dedicated at birth to Christianity. Read the revelation of 
the discovery and birth of the nation in the figures in Daniel 
and Revelation : 

2 3 00 Daniel VIII, 14 2 3 00 

666 Revelation XIII, 18 666 



1634 1634 

142 Daniel V, 5 142 



14 9 2 Discovery of America. Birth of the Nation 17 7 6 

The numbers are infallible. The words in the verse of 
the number 2 3 are 1 8, and the words in the verse of 
the number 666 are 3 1, and difference in these numbers 
is 1 3 — the number of the chapter of the Symbol. The words 



40 THE GREAT SYMBOL NINE 

in these two verses — 1 8 and 3 1 — added make 4 9. 4+9=1 3, 
the number of the chapter of the Symbol. 

Book 2 7, chapter 8, verse 1 A — verse of the "twenty-three 
hundred." These three numbers added make 4 9. 4-f-9=l 3, 
again the number of the chapter of the Symbol. 

Book 2 7, chapter 1 3, verse 1 8 — verse of the "six hun- 
dred and sixty-six." These three numbers added make 5 8. 
5— [-8=1 3, and again the number of the chapter of the Symbol. 

The books in the Old Testament are 39, (9). The books 
in the New Testament are 27, (9). The books in the Holy 
Bible are 66,(9). The Chapters 1189, (9). The verses 31173, 
(9). The words (two versions) 773692, (9)— 773476, (9). 
The letters (two versions) 3,567,180, (9)— 3,566,480, (9). 

WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT THERE ARE 
THREE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY- 
SEVEN THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY 
LETTERS IN THE HOLY BIBLE. IS IT NOT A REVE- 
LATION OF SINGULAR SIGNIFICANCE THAT THIS 
NUMBER OF LETTERS ARE SO CLASSIFIED AS TO 
APPEAR BUT ONCE ONLY IN THE FORM OF A 
VERSE WITH JUST NINE WORDS COMPOSED WITH 
THAT NUMBER OF LETTERS WHICH EQUAL THE 
SUM OF THE THREE SIXES AND THE GREAT 
SYMBOL NINE? THERE IS NO OTHER VERSE IN 
EITHER THE OLD OR NEW TESTAMENT IN WHICH 
THE NUMBER OF THE VERSE AND THE WORDS 
IN THE VERSE ARE OF THE SAME DENOMINATION 
AND, WHEN ADDED TO THE LETTERS IN THE 
VERSE, PRODUCE A RESULT EQUAL TO THE SUM 
OF THE NINE ARABIC NUMERALS. 

There are four modes of scriptural interpretation ; literal, 
allegorical, tropological and anagogetical. Students are privi- 
leged to establish new classifications as shall suit their con- 
venience in explanation of the data herein and each 
can decide how many coincidences and correlations of events 
through a symbolic number are necessary in the verification 
of interpretation of Bible prophesy. 

"If any man have an ear let him hear." — Revelation 
xiii, 9. 

"Despise Not Prophesyings." — First Thessalonians v : 20. 






APPENDIX 

FURTHER EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF DEMOCRA- 
TIZING THE WORLD, AND PRESERVATION OF 
CHRISTIANITY. 

Proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies, sixth day of 
April, 1917. Approval unanimously of the Resolution to have 
the message of the American Democracy to the people of the 
German Autocracy read in all the schools of the French 
Democracy throughout the World. 

President of the Chamber of Deputies : The President 
of the Council has the floor. 

Mr. Ribot, President of the Council, Minister of For- 
eign Affairs : Before the Chamber adjourns the Government 
asks it to address a cordial greeting to the great Republic of 
the United States. {Cheers. All the deputies rise, turn 
toward the diplomatic gallery, and applaud [the Ambassador 
of the United States being in the gallery]. Many cries of 
"Long live the Republic.") 

You have read the admirable message of President Wil- 
son. We all feel that something great, something which ex- 
ceeds the proportions of a political event, has been accom- 
plished. {Cries of assent.) 

It is an historic fact of unequaled importance {applause) 
— this entry into the war on the side of us and our allies by 
the most peaceful democracy in the world. {Loud applause.) 
After having done everything to affirm its attachment to peace, 
the great American nation declares solemnly that it cannot 
remain neutral in this immense conflict between right and 
barbarism. {Loud and prolonged applause.) It holds that 
honor requires it to take up the defiance flung at all rules 
of international law so laboriously built up by civilized nations. 
{Applause.) 

It declares at the same time that it is not fighting for self- 
interest, desires neither conquest nor compensation, intends 
only to help toward a victory of the cause of law and liberty. 
(All the deputies rise and applaud.) 

The grandeur, the nobility, of this action is enhanced by 
the simplicity and serenity of the language of the illustrious 
leader of that great democracy. {Loud applause.) 

If the world had entertained the least doubt of the pro- 
found meaning of this war in which we are engaged, the 
message of the President of the United States would dissipate 
all obscurity. It makes apparent to all that the struggle is 
verily a struggle between the liberal spirit of modern societies 
and the spirit of oppression of societies still enslaved to mili- 
tary despotism. {Prolonged applause.) It is for this reason 



42 THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 

that the message rings in the depths of all hearts like a mes- 
sage of deliverance to the world. (Applause.) 

The people which, under the inspiration of the writings 
of our philosophers, declared its rights in the eighteenth cen- 
tury, the people who place Washington and Lincoln foremost 
among their heroes (applause), the people who in the last 
century suffered a civil war for the abolition of slavery 
(cheers; the whole Chamber rises and applauds), were indeed 
worthy to give such an example to the world. 

Thus they remain faithful to the traditions of the foun- 
ders of their independence and demonstrate that the enor- 
mous rise of their industrial strength and of their economic 
and financial power has not weakened in them that need for 
an ideal without which there can be no great nation. (Ap- 
plause.) 

What touches us particularly is that the United States 
has held to the friendship which at an earlier time was ratified 
in blood. (Applause.) We bear witness with grateful joy 
to the enduring sympathy between the peoples, which is one 
of the delicate virtues the bosom of a democracy can nourish. 

The Star-spangled Banner and the Tricolor will fig side 
by side; our hands will join; our hearts beat in unison. This 
will mean for us, after so much suffering, heroically borne, 
so many bereavements, so many ruins, a renewal of the senti- 
ments which have animated and sustained us during this long 
trial. The powerful, decisive aid which the United States 
brings us is not only a material aid ; it will be especially moral 
aid, a real consolation. (Loud applause.) 

Seeing the conscience of peoples everywhere in the world 
awake and rise in an immense protest against the atrocities of 
which we are the victims, we feel more keenly that we are 
fighting not only for ourselves and for our allies, but for 
something immortal (applause), and that we are laying the 
foundations of a new order. (Loud applause.) Thus our 
sacrifices will not have been in vain ; the generous blood' 
poured out by the sons of France will have sowed fertile 
seeds in the ideas of justice and of liberty fundamentally nec- 
essary to concord between nations. (Applause.) 

In the name of the whole country, the government of the 
French Republic addresses to the government and people of 
the United States, with the expression of its gratitude, its 
warmest good wishes. (Prolonged cheers. All the deputies 
rise and turn applauding to the diplomatic gallery.) 

Many voices : The proclamation ! 

Mr. Paul Dechanel, President of the Chamber: The 
proclamation of the speech which the Chamber has just ap- 
plauded is asked. There is no opposition? The proclamation 
is ordered. 



THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 43 

The French Chamber greets with enthusiasm the verdict 
of the President of the Republic of the United States, who 
has indeed spoken for justice, and the vigorous decision of 
the Federal Senate accepting the war imposed by Germany. 

^schylus says in "The Persians" : "When insolence takes 
root, it grows into crime ; the harvest is suffering." 

And we can say : "The growth of the crime brings ven- 
geance ; after the harvest of suffering comes the harvest of 
justice!" (Loud applause.) 

The cry of the women and children from the depths of 
the abyss where hideous wickedness flung them echoed from 
one end of the earth to the other. Washington and Lincoln 
trembled in their graves ; their great spirit has roused America. 
(Loud applause.) 

And is it a question only of avenging Americans? Is it a 
question only of punishing the violation of treaties signed by 
the United States? No; the eternal truths proclaimed in the 
Declaration of 1776, the sacred causes which La Fayette and 
Rochambeau defended (applause), the ideal of pure con- 
sciences from which the great Republic was born — honor, 
morality, liberty — these are the supreme values which shine 
in the folds of the Star-spangled Banner. (Loud applause.) 

Descendants of the Puritans of New England, brought up 
on the precepts of the Gospel, and who under the eyes of 
God are about to punish the infernal creation of evil, false- 
hood, perjury, assassination, profanation, rape, slavery, mar- 
tyrdom, and all kinds of disasters ; Catholics, struck to the 
heart by curses against their religion, by outrages against 
their cathedrals and statues, reaching a climax in the destruc- 
tion of Louvain and Rheims ; university professors, trust- 
worthy guardians of law and learning; industrialists of the 
East and Middle West, farmers and agriculturalists of the 
West ; workmen and artisans, threatened by the torpedoing 
of vessels, by the interruption of commerce, revolted by the 
insults to their national colors — all are arrayed against the 
mad arrogance which would enslave the earth, the sea, the 
heavens, and the souls of men. (Prolonged applause and 
cheers.) 

At a time when, as in the heroic times of the American 
Revolution, the Americans are to fight with us, let us repeat 
once more : We wish to prevent no one from living, working, 
and trading freely ; but the tyranny of Prussia has become 
a peril for the New World as for the Old, for England as for 
Russia, for Italy as for Austria, and for Germany itself. 
(Applause.) To free the world, by a common effort of all 
democratic peoples, from the yoke of a feudal and military 
caste in order to found peace upon right, is a work of human 
deliverance and universal good. (Applause.) 



44 THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 

In accomplishing, under an administration henceforth im- 
mortal (applause, cheers; all rise and applaud), the greatest 
act in its annals since the abolition of slavery, the glorious 
nation whose whole history is but a development of the idea 
of liberty (applause) remains true to its lofty origin and cre- 
ates for itself another claim to the gratitude of mankind. 
(Applause.) 

The French Republic, across the ruins of its cities and its 
monuments, devastated without reason or excuse by shameful 
savagery (loud applause), sends to its beloved sister Republic 
in America the palms of the Marne, the Yser, and of Verdun 
and the Somme, to which new victories will soon be added. 
(Prolonged applause, cheers; all the deputies rise.) 

Many voices : We call for the proclamation ! 

Mr. Colliard : I ask that the two speeches which the 
Chamber has just heard be issued as proclamation and read 
in the schools of France. 

Mr. Mauger: I second the motion. 

President of the Chamber : The proclamation of the 
speeches which the Chamber has just heard is requested. 
There is no opposition? The proclamation is ordered. 



Address on the first day of May, 1917 , of Monsieur Rene 
Viviani, former Prime Minister of France ; present Minister 
of Justice, and head of the French Commission, to, and in, the 
Senate of the United States. (French and English text.) 
French version published in Le Temps, Paris, third of May, 
1917. 

AU se'nat DES ETATS-UNIS 

Washington, 2 mai. 

Voici le texte du discours que M. Viviani a prononce 
dans la seance ou le Senat a invite le ministre frangais a. 
parler a l'Assemblee : 

"Puisque je suis admis au supreme honneur de prendre 
la parole devant les representants du peuple americain, qu'ils 
me laissent tout d'abord remercier la magnifique capitale de 
l'accueil qu'elle nous a reserve. Habitues, dans notre pays 
libre, aux manifestations populaires, et bien qu'avertis, par 
vos compatriotes reesidant a Paris, de l'enthousiasme qui 
brulait vos cceurs, nous sommes encore emus de ce grandiose 
spectacle. 

"Je reverrai toujours ces hommes, fiers, vigoureux, nous 
adressant un salut ; ces f emmes, dont la grace embellit la cite, 



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tendant vers nous leurs mains chargees de fleurs; ces enfants 
accourus aupres de nous a l'appel de leurs maitres, comme 
si notre venue etait un enseignement, tous ensemble acclamant 
a travers nos personnes perissables la France immortelle. Je 
vous predis cependant une manifestation plus grandiose encore, 
le jour ou votre illustre president, ayant depose le fardeau du 
pouvoir, viendra apporter le salut de la Republique americaine 
a l'Europe libre, tout entiere construite sur le Droit. 

"Cest avec une emotion indicible que nous avons franchi 
le seuil du palais legislatif, ou siegent ensemble la^ Prudence 
et la Hardiesse; que moi-meme, pour la premiere fois dans les 
annales de 1'Amerique, quoique etranger, je porte la parole 
a cette tribune qui resonnait, il y a quelques jours encore, de 
males accents. 

"Vous avez donne a toutes les democraties du monde le 
plus magnifique exemple. Des que le peril vous apparut, sim- 
plement et en quelques jours, vous avez vote un formidable 
credit de guerre, proclame la levee d'une formidable armee. 

"Les commentaires dont le president Wilson avait fait 
preceder ses actes et que vous vous etes appropries resteront 
pour l'histoire des peuples libres une grave legon. 

"Sans doute vous avez voulu venger les injures^ faites a 
votre drapeau universellement respecte. Sans doute a travers 
les epaisseurs de ces murailles, vous avez entendu monter 
jusqu'a vos consciences la plainte lugubre d'innocentes victimes 
precipitees par une main criminelle dans la profondeur des 
riots des mers. Ce sera votre honneur historique d'avoir en- 
tendu en meme temps la plainte de l'humanite, d'avoir invoque 
contre 1 autocratie le droit des democraties. Je me demande, 
tandis que je parle, ce que peuvent penser, s'ils ont encore la 
faculte de penser, les autocrates qui, il y a trois ans contre 
nous, et il y a quelques mois contre vous, ont precipite le con- 
flit. Ah! sans doute ils se disaient que la democratic est un 
gouvernement ideal qui dispense aux hommes les reformes et 
est capable sur les champs du travail de stimuler l'activite 
economique. 

"Mais ils se disaient que la liberte aneantit la discipline 
des esprits et des coeurs, que seule l'autorite peut maintenir. 
Et voila la Republique frangaise qui combat pour son territoire 
et la liberte des peuples, offrant a Tavalanche dechainee par le 
militarisme prussien l'union de tous ses enfants capables en- 
core de frapper bien des coups. Voila que l'Angleterre, elle 
aussi eloignee de la conscription, elle aussi, par la vertu de la 
discipline librement consentie, fait surgir de son sol des mil- 
lions de combattants. Voila d'autres nations qui ont accompli 
le meme acte, et c'est la liberte qui non seulement enflamme 
mais coordonne et realise. Voila enfin que 1'Amerique est 



46 THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 

tout entiere debout et qu'elle apprete ses armes au milieu de 
la concorde absolue pour le combat universel. 

"Tous ensemble, nous allons continuer a livrer le combat. 

"Quand, par la force, nous aurons impose la victoire mili- 
taire, l'ceuvre ne sera pas finie. II restera, selon la belle parole 
du president Wilson, a organiser la societe des nations. 
J'entends bien que les railleries de nos ennemis qui n'ont 
jamais entrevu qu'un horizon de bataille, s'attachent a ce noble 
dessein. Ce fut toujours ainsi dans le monde, a l'aube de 
toutes les idees. Si les penseurs et les hommes d'action 
s'etaient laisse decourager par les sceptiques, l'humanite 
serait encore en enfance. Nous serions attaches a la servitude. 
Nous remporterons apres la victoire materielle cette victoire 
morale. 

"Nous enchainerons a jamais la lourde epee du mili- 
tarisme. Nous dirons les garanties pour la paix. Nous 
pourrons alors disparaitre de la scene du monde apres avoir 
laisse, au prix d'une immolation collective, le plus magnifique 
heritage que puissent recueillir les generations." 

TRANSLATION OF M. VIVIANI'S SPEECH 
FOLLOWS : 

Mr. President and Senators : Since I have been granted 
the supreme honor of speaking before the representatives of 
the American people, may I ask them first to allow me to 
thank this magnificent Capital for the welcome it has accorded 
us? Accustomed as we are in our own free land to popular 
manifestations, and though we had been warned by your 
fellow-countrymen who live in Paris of the enthusiasm burn- 
ing in your hearts, we are still full of the emotion raised by 
the sights that awaited us. 

I shall never cease to see the proud and stalwart men 
who saluted our passage; your women, whose grace adds 
fresh beauty to your city, their arms outstretched, full of 
flowers ; and your children hurrying to meet us as if our com- 
ing were looked upon as a lesson for them — all with one 
accord acclaiming in our perishable persons immortal France. 

And I predict there will be a yet grander manifestation 
on the day when your illustrious President, relieved from the 
burden of power, will come among us bearing the salute of 
the Republic of the United States to a free Europe, whose 
foundations from end to end shall be based on right. 

It is with unspeakable emotion that we crossed the 
threshold of this legislative palace, where prudence and bold- 
ness meet, and that I for the first time in the annals of 
America, though a foreigner, speak in this hall which only 
a few days since resounded with the words of virile force. 

You have set all the democracies of the world the most 



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magnificent example. So soon as the common peril was made 
manifest to you, with simplicity and within a few short days 
you voted a formidable army was to be raised. President 
Wilson's commentary on his acts, which you made yours, 
remains in the history of free peoples the weightiest of lessons. 

Doubtless you were resolved to avenge the insults offered 
your flag, which the whole world respected ; doubtless through 
the thickness of these massive walls the mournful cry of 
all the victims that criminal hands hurled into the depths of 
the sea has reached and stirred your souls ; but it will be 
your honor in history that you also heard the cry of humanity 
and invoked against autocracy the right of democracies. 

And I can only wonder as I speak what, if they still 
have any power to think, are the thoughts of the autocrats 
who three years ago against us, three months ago against 
you, unchained this conflict. 

Ah ! doubtless they said among themselves that a de- 
mocracy is an ideal government ; that it showers reforms on 
mankind ; that it can in the domain of labor quicken all 
economic activities. And yet now we see the French Re- 
public fighting in defense of its territory and the liberty of 
nations and opposing to the avalanche let loose by Prussian 
militarism the union of all its children, who are still capable 
of striking many a weighty blow. 

And now we see England, far removed like you from 
conscription, who has also, by virtue of a discipline all accept, 
raised from her soil millions of fighting men. And we see 
other nations accomplishing the same act; and that liberty 
not only inflames all hearts, but coordinates and brings into 
being all needed efforts. 

And now we see all America rise and sharpen her weapons 
in the midst of peace for the common struggle. 

Together we will carry on that struggle, and when by 
force we have at last imposed military victory our labors will 
not be concluded. Our task will be — I quote the noble words 
of President Wilson — to organize the society of nations. 

I well know that our enemies, who have never seen before 
them anything but horizons of carnage, will never cease to 
jeer at so noble a design. Such has always been the fate of 
great ideas at their birth; and if thinkers and men of action 
had allowed themselves to be discouraged by skeptics, man- 
kind would still be in its infancy and we should still be slaves. 
After material victory we will win this moral victory. 

We will shatter the ponderous sword of militarism ; we 
will establish guaranties for peace ; and then we can disappear 
from the world's stage, since we shall leave at the cost of 
our common immolation the noblest heritage future genera- 
tions can possess. 



WORLD DEMOCRACY 

GREAT BRITAIN 

Address on the fifth day of May, 1917, of the Right Hon- 
orable Arthur J. Balfour, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and head of the 
British Commission, in the House of Representatives in the 
United States. 

Mr. Speaker, Ladies and Gentlemen of the House of 
Representatives: Will you permit me, on behalf of my 
friends and myself, to offer you my deepest and sincerest 
thanks for the rare and valued honor which you have done 
us by receiving us here today? 

We all feel the greatness of this honor; but I think to 
none of us can it come home so closely as to one who, like 
myself, has been for 43 years in the service of a free assembly 
like your own. I rejoice to think that a member — a very old 
member, I am sorry to say — of the British House of Com- 
mons has been received here today by this great sister assem- 
bly with such kindness as you have shown to me and to my 
friends. 

Ladies and gentlemen, these two assemblies are the 
greatest and oldest of the free assemblies now governing great 
nations in the world. The history indeed of the two is very 
different. 

The beginnings of the British House of Commons go 
back to a dim historic past, and its full rights and status have 
only been conquered and permanently secured after centuries 
of political struggle. 

Your fate has been a happier one. You were called into 
existence at a much later stage of social development. You 
came into being complete and perfected and all your powers 
determined, and your place in the Constitution secured beyond 
chance of revolution ; but, though the history of these two 
great assemblies is different, each of them represents the 
great democratic principle to which we look forward as the 
security for the future peace of the world. 

All of the free assemblies now to be found governing the 
great nations of the earth have been modeled either upon 
your practice or upon ours or upon both combined. 

Mr. Speaker, the compliment paid to the mission from 
Great Britain by such an assembly and upon such an occasion 
is one not one of us is ever likely to forget. But there is 
something, after all, even deeper and more significant in the 
circumstances under which I now have the honor to address 



THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 49 

vou than any which arise out of the interchange of courtesies, 
however sincere, between the great and friendly nations. 

We all I think, feel instinctively that this is one of he 
great and 'free peoples for mutual protection against the 
ae-s-ression of military despotism. 

g I am not one of those, and none of you are among those 
who aresuch bad democrats as to say that democracies make 
no mistakes All free assemblies have made blunders; some- 
tjmpc thev have committed crimes. 

Why is it" then, that we look forward to the spread of 
free institutions throughout the world, and especially among 
our or^sent enemies, as one of the greatest guaranties of the 
?utu?eTeace of the world? I will tell you gentlemen, how 
t seems to me It is quite true that the people and the repre- . 
sentatTves oTthe people may be betrayed by some momentary 
™t of oassion into a policy which they ultimately deplore; 
out it s P only a militarydespotism of the German type which 
can through . generations if need be, pursue steadily, remorse- 
kssV unscrupulously, the appalling object of dominating the 
civilization of mankind. 

And mark you, this evil, this menace under which we 
are now suffering, is not one which diminishes with the 
growTof knowledge and the progress of material civiliza- 
tion, but, on the contrary, it increases with them. 

When I was young we used to flatter ourselves that 
progress inevitably meant peace, and that growth of knowi- 
ng! was always^ccompanied as its natural [fruit by the 
growth of good will among the nations of the earth Un- 
happily we know better now, and we know there is. such a 
tmng in the world as a power which can with unvarying per- 
sistence ocus all the resources of knowledge and of civiliza- 
tion into the one great task of making itself the moral and 
material master of the world. 

It is against that danger that we, the free peoples of 
westlrndXaUon, have banded ourselves together It is in 
that great cause that we are going to fight, and are now 
fighting this very moment, side by side. 

In that cause we shall surely conquer, and our children 
will look back to this fateful date as the one day from, which 
d^mo?racies can feel secure that their progress, their civiliza- 
tion their rivalry, if need be, will be conducted, not on German 
lines, but in thai friendly and Christian spirit which really 
befits the age in which we live. m 

Mr Speaker ladies and gentlemen, I beg most sincerely 
to replat^how heartily I thank you fo^ the cordial wd 
cnme which vou have given us today, and to repeat my 
Pound sense of the significance of this unique meeting. 



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UNITED STATES 

Flag Day Address, fourteenth day of June, 1917, of the 
President of the United States to the Democracies of the 
World. 

My Fellow Citizens : We meet to celebrate Flag Day 
because this flag which we honor and under which we serve 
is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and 
purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that 
which we give it from generation to generation. The choices 
are ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that 
execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, 
though silent, it speaks to us — speaks to us of the past, of the 
men and women who went before us and of the records they 
wrote upon it. We celebrate the day of its birth, and from its 
birth until now it has witnessed a great history, has floated on 
high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life 
worked out by a great people. 

We are about to carry it into battle, to lift it where it 
will draw the fire of our enemies. We are about to bid 
thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be millions, of our 
men, the young, the strong, the capable men of the nation, to 
go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood far away — for 
what? For some unaccustomed thing? For something for 
which it has never sought the fire before? American armies 
were never before sent across the seas. Why are they sent 
now? For some new purpose, for which this great flag has 
never been carried before, or for some old, familiar, heroic 
purpose for which it has seen men, its own men, die on every 
battlefield upon which Americans have borne arms since the 
Revolution? 

These are questions which must be answered. We are 
Americans. We in our turn serve America, and can serve 
her with no private purpose. We must use her flag as she has 
always used it. We are accountable at the bar of history, and 
must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to 
serve. 

It is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The 
extraordinary insults and aggressions of the Imperial German 
government left us no self-respecting choice but to take up 
arms in defence of our rights as a free people and of our 
honor as a sovereign government. The military masters of 
Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our 
unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators 
and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own 
behalf. 



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When they found that they could not do that, their agents 
diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our 
own citizens from their allegiance — and some of these agents 
were men connected with the official embassy of the German 
government itself here in our own capital. They sought by 
violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. 
They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms against us and 
to draw Japan into a hostile alliance with her — and that, not 
by indirection, but by direct suggestion from the Foreign 
Office in Berlin. 

They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and 
repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their 
death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts 
of Europe. And many of our own people were corrupted. 
Men began to look upon their own neighbors with suspicion 
and to wonder, in their hot resentment and surprise, whether 
there was any community in which hostile intrigue did not 
lurk. 

What great nation in such circumstances would not have 
taken up arms? Much as we had desired peace, it was denied 
us, and not of our own choice. This flag under which we 
serve would have been dishonored had we withheld our hand. 

But that is only part of the story. We know now as 
clearly as we knew before we were ourselves engaged that 
we are not the enemies of the German people and that they 
are not our enemies. They did not originate or desire this 
hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it, and we 
are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as they 
will some day see it, as well as our own. They are themselves 
in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last 
stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us. The 
whole world is at war because the whole world is in the grip 
of that power and is trying out the great battles which shall 
determine whether it is to be brought under its mastery or 
fling itself free. 

The war was begun by the military masters of Germany, 
who proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hungary. These 
men have never regarded nations as peoples, men, women and 
children of like blood and frame as themselves, for whom 
governments existed and in whom governments had their life. 
They have regarded them merely as serviceable organizations 
which they could by force or intrigue bend or corrupt to their 
own purpose. They have regarded the smaller states, in 
particular, and the peoples who could be overwhelmed by force 
as their natural tools and instruments of domination. 

Their purpose has long been avowed. The statesmen of 
other nations, to whom that purpose was incredible, paid little 
attention ; regarded what German professors expounded in 



52 THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 

their classrooms and German writers set forth to the world as 
the goal of German policy as rather the dream of minds de- 
tached from practical affairs, as preposterous private concep- 
tions of German destiny, than as the actual plans of responsi- 
ble rulers ; but the rulers of Germany themselves knew all the 
while what concrete plans, what well advanced intrigues lay 
back of what the professors and the writers were saying, and 
were glad to go forward unmolested, filling the thrones of 
Balkan States with German princes, putting German officers 
at the service of Turkey to drill her armies and make interest 
with her government, developing plans of sedition and re- 
bellion in India and Egypt, setting their fires in Persia. 

The demands made by Austria upon Serbia were a mere 
single step in a plan which compassed Europe and Asia, from 
Berlin to Bagdad. They hoped those demands might not 
arouse Europe, but they meant to press them, whether they 
did or not, for they thought themselves ready for the final 
issue of arms. 

Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military 
power and political control across the very centre of Europe 
and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia, and 
Austria-Hungary was to be as much their tool and pawn as 
Serbia or Bulgaria or Turkey or the ponderous states of the 
East. Austria-Hungary, indeed, was to become part of the 
Central German Empire, absorbed and dominated by the same 
forces and influences that had originally cemented the Ger- 
man states themselves. 

The dream had its heart at Berlin. It could have had a 
heart nowhere else! It rejected the idea of solidarity of race 
entirely. The choice of peoples played no part in it at all. 
It contemplated binding together racial and political units 
which could be kept together only by force — Czechs, Magyars, 
Croats, Serbs, Rumanians, Turks, Armenians — the proud states 
of Bohemia and Hungary, the stout little commonwealths of 
the Balkans, the indomitable Turks, the subtle peoples of the 
East. These peoples did not wish to be united. They ardently 
desired to direct their own affairs, would be satisfied only by 
undisputed independence. They could be kept quiet only by 
the presence or the constant threat of armed men. They 
would live under a common power only by sheer compulsion 
and await the day of revolution. But the German military 
statesmen had reckoned with all that, and were ready to deal 
with it in their own way. 

And they have actually carried the greater part of that 
amazing plan into execution. Look how things stand ! Aus- 
tria is at their mercy. It has acted not upon its own initiative 
or upon the choice of its own people, but at Berlin's dictation 
ever since the war began. Its people now desire peace, but 



THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 53 

cannot have it until leave is granted from Berlin. The so- 
called Central Powers are in fact but a single power. Serbia 
is at its mercy, should its hands be but for a moment freed. 
Bulgaria has consented to its will, and Rumania is overrun. 
The Turkish armies, which Germans trained, are serving Ger- 
many, certainly not themselves, and the guns of German war- 
ships lying in the harbor at Constantinople remind Turkish 
statesmen every day that they have no choice but to take their 
orders from Berlin. From Hamburg to the Persian Gulf the 
net is spread. 

Is it not easy to understand the eagerness for peace that 
has been manifested from Berlin ever since the snare was set 
and sprung? Peace, peace, peace has been the talk of her 
Foreign Office for now a year and more; not peace upon her 
own initiative, but upon the initiative of the nations over 
which she now deems herself to hold the advantage. 

A little of the talk has been public, but most of it has been 
private. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me, and 
in all sorts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which 
the German government would be willing to accept. 

That government has other valuable pawns in its hands 
besides those I have mentioned. It still holds a valuable part 
of France, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically 
the whole of Belgium. Its armies press upon Russia 
and overrun Poland at their will. It cannot go further; it 
dare not go back. It wishes to close its bargain before it is 
too late, and it has little left to offer for the pound of flesh 
it will demand. 

The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding 
see very clearly to what point Fate has brought them. If they 
fall back or are forced back an inch their power both abroad 
and at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards. It is 
their power at home they are thinking about now more than 
their power abroad. It is that power which is trembling 
under their very feet, and deep fear has entered their hearts. 
They have but one chance to perpetuate their military power 
or even their controlling political influence. 

If they can secure peace now with the immense advantages 
still in their hands which they have up to this point appar- 
ently gained they will have justified themselves before the 
German people ; they will have gained by force what they 
promised to gain by it — an immense expansion of German 
power, an immense enlargement of German industrial and 
commercial opportunities. Their prestige will be secure, and 
with their prestige their political power. 

If they fail their people will thrust them aside; a govern- 
ment accountable to the people, themselves will be set up ir 
Germany as it has been in England, in the United States, ir 



54 THE WORLD DEMOCRACY 

France and in all the great countries of the modern time 
except Germany. If they succeed they are safe and Germany 
and the world are undone; if they fail Germany is saved and 
the world will be at peace. 

If they succeed America will fall within the menace. We 
and all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will 
remain, and must make ready for the next step in their ag- 
gression ; if they fail the world may unite for peace and 
Germany may be of the union. 

Do you not now understand the new intrigue, the intrigue 
for peace, and why the masters of Germany do not hesitate 
to use any agency that promises to effect their purpose, the 
deceit of the nations? Their present particular aim is to de- 
ceive all those who throughout the world stand for the rights 
of peoples and the self-government of nations, for they see 
what immense strength the forces of justice and of liberalism 
are gathering out of this war. They are employing liberals 
in their enterprise. They are using men, in Germany and with- 
out, as their spokesmen whom they have hitherto despised and 
oppressed, using them for their own destruction— Socialists, 
the leaders of labor, the thinkers they have hitherto sought 
to silence. 

Let them once succeed and these men, now their tools, 
will be ground to powder beneath the weight of the great 
military empire they will have set up ; the revolutionists in 
Russia will be cut off from all succor or cooperation in 
Western Europe and a counter revolution fostered and sup- 
ported ; Germany herself will lose her chance of freedom, and 
all Europe will arm for the next, the final, struggle. 

The sinister intrigue is being no less actively conducted 
in this country than in Russia and in every country in Europe 
to which the agents and dupes of the Imperial German gov- 
ernment can get access. That government has many spokes- 
men here, in places high and low. They have learned discre- 
tion. They keep within the law. It is opinion they utter 
now, not sedition. They proclaim the liberal purposes of their 
masters ; declare this a foreign war which can touch America 
with no danger to either her lands or her institutions; set 
England at the centre of the stage and talk of her ambition 
to assert economic dominion throughout the world ; appeal to 
our ancient tradition of isolation in the politics of the nations, 
and seek to undermine the government with false professions 
of loyalty to its principles. 

But they will make no headway. The false betray them- 
selves always in every accent. It is only friends and partisans 
of the German government whom we have already identified 
who utter these thinly disguised disloyalties. The facts are 
patent to all the world, and nowhere are they more plainly 



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seen than in the United States, where we are accustomed to 
deal with facts, and not with sophistries ; and the great fact 
that stands out above all the rest is that this is a peoples' 
war, a war for freedom and justice and self-government 
amongst all the nations of the world, a war to make the world 
safe for the peoples who live upon it and have made it their 
own, the German people themselves included, and that with 
us rests the choice to break through all these hypocrisies and 
patent cheats and masks of brute force and help set the world 
free, or else stand aside and let it be dominated a long age 
through by sheer v/eight of arms and the arbitrary choices 
of self-constituted masters, by the nation which can maintain 
the biggest armies and the most irresistible armaments — a 
power to which the world has afforded no parallel and in the 
face of which political freedom must wither and perish. 

For us there is but one choice. We have made it. Woe 
be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way 
in this day of high resolution, when every principle we hold 
dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation 
of the nations ! We are ready to plead at the bar of history, 
and our flag shall wear a new lustre. Once more we shall 
make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to 
which we were born, and a new glory shall shine in the face 
of our people. 



